Check out the calendar for the most up-to-date park event information. From exhibitions and performances to parkwide and special events, the calendar has it all. Remember to check back often as new and exciting things are always being planned!
San Diego Natural History Museum (The Nat)
1788 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, United States
Take a fascinating journey into two remarkably different, but inextricably linked worlds—Mexico’s Sea of Cortés and the Baja California desert. Ocean Oasis mesmerizes audiences as they witness the beauty of life in Baja California's rich waters and seemingly barren land. Fly over sweeping vistas of snow-capped mountains, vast deserts, palm oases, and mangrove swamps—then plunge into astonishing ...
Immerse yourself in the world of POPnology, Comic-Con Museum’s latest interactive exhibit that demonstrates the connection between pop culture and real-world technology! Engage with your favorite science fiction technology such as driverless cars, robots, drones, and more to learn how fantasy becomes reality and explore which science fiction of today will become reality tomorrow. POPnology ...
Mingei International Museum
1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
This exhibition features highlights from Mingei’s bead collection and explores the materials from which beads are made. Ranging from plant and animal materials to fabricated metal and glass, these single beads and beaded objects were made by different cultures from around the world and were largely acquired by Mingei International Museum from The Bead Museum ...
Every Sunday at 2 p.m. for one hour, the organ plays. This is the foundation of all concerts. The Spreckels Organ Pavilion for Kids ◦ Family Discovery Days: “An Opportunity to Discover Live Musical Instruments and Dance” ◦ Opera 4Kids: featuring The Enchantel Tail and Message in a Bottle ◦ Young Organists Scholarship Awards Concerts ...
Museum of Photographic Art at San Diego Museum of Art
1649 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
A compassionate and talented photographer, Morrie Camhi was always drawn to the human condition. His photographic projects ranged from Farmworkers, exploring Mexican-American labor activism and undocumented immigrants; The Prison Experience, documenting the prisoners and staff of the California State Prison in Vacaville; to The Jews of Greece. Morrie Camhi: The Jews of Greece exemplifies Camhi’s ...
Museum of Photographic Art at San Diego Museum of Art
1649 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
This exhibition selects from over a thousand photographs that were accepted as gifts in the last three years, leading up to the recent merging of the Museum of Photographic Arts and The San Diego Museum of Art. This combined collection now contains over fifteen thousand works of photography, video, and new media. From anonymous nineteenth-century photographers ...
Mingei International Museum
1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
These vibrant and intricately decorated objects are pysanky – a timeless art form of highly decorative eggs deeply rooted in Ukrainian heritage. Pysanky comes from the Ukrainian word pysaty, meaning “to write.” The eggs, which contain designs embedded with deep cultural significance, are often gifted as wishes for good fortune and protection. They also serve as a symbol of the Ukrainian ...
Mingei International Museum
1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
Interdisciplinary artist Shirin Towfiq explores the stories and memories shared by her family while navigating the in-betweenness and uncertainty she feels as a second-generation Iranian refugee. Her work is inspired by Persian folk art, lore, and traditions which she reimagines through embroidery, patchwork, and digital prints on gauze. Folk art and craft are deeply rooted ...
Mingei International Museum
1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
Cups to Connections: Global Gestures of Hospitality embraces the art of hospitality and how the act of sharing a drink has the extraordinary power to bring people together, fostering a deep sense of community and belonging. Highlighting a wide range of global traditions, the objects in Cups to Connections tell the stories of heritage and craft from across ...
Museum of Photographic Art at San Diego Museum of Art
1649 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
For over four decades artist Holly Roberts (American, b. 1951) has explored her rich and varied inner world. With a strong connection to nature, both human and animal, she was an early experimenter in mixing painting and photography. From painting on the surface of the photographic image to cutting photographs into transformative shapes and applying ...
Museum of Photographic Art at San Diego Museum of Art
1649 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
Cara Romero is an enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, and was raised between the contrasting settings of the reservation in Mojave Desert, California and the urban sprawl of Houston, Texas. Romero’s identity informs her visceral approach to representing cultural memory, collective history, and lived experience from a female Native American perspective. Romero is ...
Japanese Friendship Garden and Museum
2215 Pan American Road East, San Diego, CA, United States
In the serene embrace of the Japanese Friendship Garden and Museum, "Beyond Form: Transient Echoes" invites you on a journey through the ephemeral essence of existence. Inspired by the timeless wisdom of Zen philosophy, Glover created site-specific paintings that echo the impermanence and transience inherent in both nature and the material world. Within this exhibition, ...
