The City of Oceanside has welcomed CSM by providing affordable space since 1996. People have donated amazing treasures and antique artifacts to CSM - including surfboards, trophies, magazines and more - in order to share and preserve them. 

We estimate nearly 500,000 visitors have come through our doors in those 25 years to see and read the surf lifestyle and history we are sharing - their interest and enthusiasm keeps us going.

Stuart Resor, an Encinitas resident and surfer, says "I got the idea to start preserving our surf history when I saw Woody Ekstrom walking down the beach at Grand View in Leucadia. It suddenly seemed to me that the early days of surfing were slipping behind us and if he and others were interested, we could display old surfboards and photographs for future generations to see."