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Regardless of venue, most San Diego museums feature a rich assortment of artifacts from days long gone with polished displays and accompanying placards. The numerous, laborious steps taken before spectators have an opportunity to take in an exhibit are featured in the San Diego History Center’s (SDHC) exhibit “Local Treasures from The History Center’s Collections.”
For collector and owner of the J.A. Cooley Museum, Jim Cooley, it’s funny that more people are familiar with his automobile museum from other parts of the world than his University Heights neighbors.
He said it’s been that way for almost 60 years and that his 26-car collection, which includes cars from 1886 through 1933, is a magnetic attraction from afar.
It’s been nearly 100 years since the R.M.S. Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean and beginning this month, the San Diego Natural History Museum in Balboa Park will give locals a first-class look at the notorious ship that never quite finished its maiden voyage in April 1912.
On Feb. 10, the Museum will debut Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, a world-renowned exhibit showcasing more than 200 artifacts retrieved from the Titanic shipwreck.
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the fight for free speech in America, Centro Cultural de la Raza, located at 2004 Park Blvd. in Balboa Park, will feature the San Diego Free Speech Fight 100-Year Anniversary Exhibit. Running through Feb. 12, this exhibit will feature photos from the 1912 movement, as well as first-hand accounts and media reports
While plastic LEGO construction toys, a staple in toy boxes for generations, have been a delight for children over the years, a current exhibit at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park is anything but child’s play.
The Southern California LEGO Train Club is displaying a grandiose creation that is meant to replicate a city not too different from San Diego. The entire exhibit – from the towering model skyscrapers down to the most finite details of railroad tracks – was built, piece by piece, by the dedicated group of train and LEGO enthusiasts in the Club
To visit San Diego’s Craft Revolution exhibit at the Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park is to walk through our city’s post-World War II past.
The city’s artists heartily embraced contemporary art design, ornamentation and craft based on three strong influences: the area’s growing defense industry, a rapid escalation of art education and the spread of modernism
Poor folks didn’t have a lot to work with when it came to making art. But imagination and frugality can be productive comrades, especially in the post-Depression years of the 1930s and 40s.
Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí are featured in San Diego Museum of Art’s adventure in time travel: “From El Greco to Dalí” spans five centuries in a rich survey of Spanish art from the Old Masters to the Avant Garde.
With appropriate fanfare, taiko drummers welcomed opening night guests on the steps of the San Diego Museum of Art as another exotic culture is celebrated in Balboa Park. Later, these musicians were joined inside by a Japanese wood flute and the evocative sounds of the long 13-stringed instrument known as a koto. It was all to launch a new, colorful exhibit by the museum and the University of San Diego, “Dreams and Diversions,” which concurrently shows some 400 prints from the two institutions’ permanent collections
A more beautiful picture of this ancient culture emerges at the Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park with its current show, “Between East and West: Folk Art Treasures of Romania.” The exhibit features the impressive collection of Lucia Ionescu Kanchenian, a San Diegan of Romanian heritage, who recently donated many of the treasures she brought back from multiple trips to her homeland