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May 2023
An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until December 31, 2023
Caught on Camera
San Diego, CA 92101 United States + Google Map
Slinking through your neighborhood. Darting across the highway. Fluttering along your favorite hiking trail. Wildlife is all around, even when we don’t see it. The Nat offers visitors a rare peek into the secret lives of wild animals in its newest exhibition. Caught on Camera: Wildlife When No One’s Watching opens November 18, 2022, in the Museum’s top- floor photography gallery. The show features remarkable images of southern California wildlife “caught” on film with the help of camera traps set…
An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, repeating until August 27, 2023
An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Monday, Thursday and Friday, repeating until August 27, 2023
A World of Beads
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 in Prescott, Arizona.
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, repeating until August 27, 2023
An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Monday, Thursday and Friday, repeating until August 27, 2023
A World of Beads
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 in Prescott, Arizona.
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until December 31, 2023
Design Zone
What does it take to create a video game, line up rhythms like the best DJs, or design a roller coaster that produces the biggest thrills? In Design Zone, you can go behind the scenes and see how video game developers, music producers, roller coaster designers and other creative problem-solvers use math to do the amazing things they do. Design Zone explores mathematical concepts like patterns, variables, scale, slope, and ratios used by artists, architects, engineers, musicians and other innovators.…
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until November 12, 2023
Carlo Miranda: In Search of Sonder
Local artist Carlo Miranda (Filipino-American, b. 1988) showcases ten recent paintings in this intimate exhibition. Miranda’s works were first exhibited in this museum in 2020 as part of a display responding to the pandemic. Working as a registered nurse in San Diego during this time had a profound impact on his use of painting as a way to channel psychological introspection, anxiety, and empathy. Miranda clarifies: “In my experience as an RN, I have developed a greater understanding of the…
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until November 7, 2023
Modern Women
Modern Women celebrates the arrival of twenty works of art to the Museum on indefinite loan from a private collection. Historically marginalized in the art world, many of these artists’ careers, such as those of key Abstract Expressionists Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning, were eclipsed by their husbands, Jackson Pollock and William de Kooning, as well as Sonia Delaunay and Françoise Gilot, whose careers were also overshadowed by the successes of their husbands, Robert Delaunay and Pablo Picasso. Yet the…
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An event every day that begins at 10:00 am, repeating until December 31, 2023
Above and Beyond
San Diego, CA 92101 United States + Google Map
The San Diego Air & Space Museum is excited to open ABOVE AND BEYOND an exciting, interactive and FUN special exhibition and experiential journey exploring the future flight and the Museum’s location in Balboa Park on Saturday, February 4. ABOVE AND BEYOND celebrates the power of innovation to make dreams take flight. This forward-looking and interactive exhibit features immersive simulations, interactive design challenges, iconic historical touchstones, visionary concepts and inspiring stories from game-changing innovators, past and present. ABOVE AND BEYOND…
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until June 11, 2023
Flashback
Celebrate 50 years of exploration at the Fleet with Flashback. See how the Fleet’s history aligns with the history in our San Diego community and in the world as you journey through the 1970s–2010s. As you go through the different rooms, every decade is a true experience of the time. Flashback will be open every day and is included in the price of admission. This experience lets you build a catenary arch among 1970s retro orange carpet and your mom’s Tupperware. Create…
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until August 27, 2023
O’Keeffe and Moore Exhibition
A one-of-a-kind exhibition, O’Keeffe and Moore compares the work of two iconic modernists: American painter Georgia O’Keeffe and British sculptor Henry Moore. While these artists worked on different continents, their careers and contributions to the artistic development of the 20th century reveal many parallels. While Georgia O’Keeffe was holding up a small pelvic bone of a gray fox against the New Mexico sky, framing the landscape and imagining the curve of the bone on a vast scale, Henry Moore, eleven years her…
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An event every week that begins at 11:00 am on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until June 30, 2023
An event every week that begins at 2:00 pm on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until June 30, 2023
One event on March 25, 2023 at 2:00 pm
One event on March 25, 2023 at 5:00 pm
One event on April 3, 2023 at 2:00 pm
One event on April 3, 2023 at 5:00 pm
One event on April 5, 2023 at 2:00 pm
One event on April 5, 2023 at 5:00 pm
One event on April 28, 2023 at 2:00 pm
One event on April 28, 2023 at 5:00 pm
An event every week that begins at 5:00 pm on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until April 30, 2023
Ancient Caves
Follow a team of paleoclimatologists as they unlock the secrets of the Earth's climate in a seemingly unlikely place: caves. Ancient Caves, opening Saturday, March 25, at the Heikoff Giant Dome Theater, immerses you in these vast underground worlds where you'll see stalagmite samples that are geologic "fingerprints" that reveal clues about our planet's climate history. You'll follow the team to some of the world's most remote caves, above and below water, in France, Iceland, the Bahamas, the United States, and Mexico.…
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An event every week that begins at 12:00 pm on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until January 5, 2024
An event every week that begins at 3:00 pm on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until January 5, 2024
Dinosaurs of Antarctica
San Diego, CA 92101 United States + Google Map
From the Permian through the Jurassic, journey to the south polar landscapes of Antarctica hundreds of millions of years ago. Roam the primitive forest and thick swamps with bizarre dinosaurs and colossal amphibians. Enter a surreal world of bug-eyed giants and egg-laying mammals—where survival means enduring the sunless, six-month polar winter surrounded by meat-eaters with night vision. Join intrepid Antarctic scientists on a quest to understand the ice continent’s profound transformation—and to predict the future as humans drive dramatic change.…
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An event every week that begins at 12:00 pm on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until June 16, 2023
An event every week that begins at 4:00 pm on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until June 16, 2023
Train Time
Join the crew of a giant freight train for an eye-popping, music-infused journey across America. Giant diesels, spectacular terrain, tens of thousands of miles of track—and millions of pounds of freight that can’t wait. Created by the director of the celebrated IMAX® Experience Rocky Mountain Express and his team, Train Time is captured on 15/70mm motion picture film, the world’s largest film format for exhibition in IMAX® and other giant screen theaters. To deliver the cargo, Train Time propels audiences through the rugged beauty and vastness of the…