Museums
San Diego's museums reflect the incredible variety and interests of the region. San Diego County is proud to showcase over 90 museums, representing a wide range of collections from fine arts to transportation, from classics to contemporary and from science to natural history. Over 25 facilities are represented by the San Diego Museum Council and 15 museums are located within Balboa Park, often referred to as "the Smithsonian of the West."
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Through 01/05/2010
Early Ecologist - Preschool Storytime Series
San Diego Natural History Museum Location: Balboa Park Price: FREE with Museum admission Description: Storytime and activities at the San Diego Natural History Museum that will spark children's love of nature. Recommended for children 5 and under with an adult.
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Through 01/10/2010
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Through 01/10/2010
An American Dream: Gregg Jabs
Oceanside Museum of Art Price: $8, $5 for Seniors, Free for Military and their dependants, Free for Students with ID Description: In this dramatic body of mixed media work, ceramic artist Gregg Jabs searches for The American Dream, only to find dysfunction
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Through 01/24/2010
Picturing the Process: The Photograph as Witness
Museum of Photographic Arts Location: Downtown Price: $4 - $6 Description: Picturing the Process: The Photograph as Witness
August 1, 2009 - February 6, 2010
The exhibition presents work from MoPA's permanent collection, and explores the variety of ways that photographers and photographs document people, places and events throughout history.
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Through 01/24/2010
Through the Lens: Selections from MoPA's Education Programs
Museum of Photographic Arts Location: Downtown Price: $4 - $6 Description:
Through the Lens: Selections from MoPA's Education Programs
October 3, 2009 – January 24, 2010
The fourth annual youth exhibition, which features the artwork of over 80 students from San Diego, ranging from 3rd–12th grades.
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Through 01/29/2010
Porsche Exhibit
San Diego Automotive Museum Location: Balboa Park Price: $4 - $8 Description: Porsche exhibit featuring the power and styling of this famed German maker.
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Through 01/31/2010
Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla Location: La Jolla Price: Free to $10 Description: Featuring an international roster of both established artists and emerging talents, this imaginative exhibition weaves architectural imagery within contemporary visual art and explores notions of architecture in the broadest sense, comprising images of cities both built and unbuilt, rising from collective experience and imagination.
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Through 01/31/2010
Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Museum of Photographic Arts Location: Downtown Price: $4 - $6 Description: Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
October 10 - January 31, 2010
Photographs of women and young girls in India by photographer, activist, and MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award winner Fazal Sheikh.
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Through 01/31/2010
Museums in Miniature: Works by Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla Location: La Jolla Price: Free to $10 Description: Museums in Miniature explores the use of collage, assemblage, and staged tableaux by Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell as plays on the notion of an exhibition space. Together these works serve as a prelude to the exhibition, Automatic Cities.
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Through 02/28/2010
Darwin: Evolution|Revolution (San Diego Natural History Museum)
San Diego Natural History Museum Location: Balboa Park Price: $10-$16 (museum members are free) Description: Explore the life and work of Charles Darwin, the biologist whose revolutionary theories on natural selection and evolution changed the face of science forever. This year marks the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publishing of On the Origin of Species.
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The San Diego Natural History Museum will present an enlightening new exhibition, Darwin: Evolution|Revolution, November 7, 2009 – February 28, 2010. The exhibit will explore the life and work of Charles Darwin, whose evolutionary theories on natural selection and evolution changed the face of science. Darwin’s personal manuscripts, notebooks and artworks will be on display, as well as fossils, taxidermy mounts and living specimens like Galapagos turtles, green iguanas and intricate orchids that Darwin used when developing his revolutionary theories.
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