They call it the perfect city. With surf, sand, and superb weather, millions of visitors flock to San Diego every year. This oasis at the crossroads of desert and sea is a natural marvel and boasts the highest diversity of plants and animals of any other county in the contiguous U.S. For millennia, the relentless ...
Embark on an unforgettable journey with Sea Otters: A Wild Family Adventure, a new IMAX® film at the Fleet Science Center. Discover the wild beauty of Vancouver Island’s rugged coast and follow Finn, an irresistible otter pup, as he explores life in the sea. Shown on San Diego’s only IMAX® Giant Dome Theater, this documentary brings you closer ...
Deep Sky brings the awe-inspiring images captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) to IMAX®—a journey to the beginning of time and space, to never-before-seen cosmic landscapes, recently discovered exoplanets and planets around other stars. Follow the global mission to build and launch JWST into orbit in an attempt to answer questions that have haunted ...
On February 28, 1926, the Fine Arts Gallery—now The San Diego Museum of Art—opened its doors to three-thousand visitors eager to experience the refined “plateresque” architecture of its façade and the burgeoning collection of San Diego’s first art museum. Over the next hundred years, millions of guests, thousands of artists and volunteers, hundreds of donors ...
This exhibition celebrates the creativity and vision of artists from across our region, each offering a distinctive interpretation of The San Diego Museum of Art’s iconic Spanish Colonial Revival façade. Conceived as part of the Museum’s Centennial, Local Visions grew out of an open call that invited local artists to reimagine the Museum’s landmark exterior ...
As part of The San Diego Museum of Art’s centennial celebrations, the Community Engagement department is proud to present Museum Suite, a unique exhibition exploring the interplay of dance and visual art. Presented in nine movements, the exhibition invites visitors into a space where performance and photography engage with the Museum’s masterworks, creating a dynamic conversation ...
Curated from Mingei International Museum’s Permanent Collection, this Entry Level exhibition explores the global significance of grains as a source of sustenance and an inspiration to human creativity. Grains such as corn, wheat, rice, quinoa, and oats are dietary staples around the world, their common presence forming important roles across communities and the cultures built ...
Lost Wolves of Yellowstone unearths one of the most daring wildlife experiments in American history—the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park after a 50-year absence. Told through long-lost 16mm archival footage, the film captures the tense early days of the project as a small group of Canadian wolves, held in acclimation pens, prepared to reclaim ...
Known for his beguiling portraits of Paris nightlife and the unvarnished local characters of Montmartre, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born into an aristocratic family in the South of France in 1864. Growing up as a child with a disability that caused his legs to stop developing, Toulouse-Lautrec turned to drawing rather than the sports his ...
To Catch a Fish presents over sixty works of craft and art that are either used in fishing or that illuminate the relationship between people and fish. Utilitarian fishing objects include hand-crafted basketry fish traps, scrapers, weights, and nets. Works with spiritual significance and symbolism include amulets, robes, images of saints, and even kites. This ...
This exhibition marks the centennial of The San Diego Museum of Art, celebrating a select few of the many thousands of important works of art added to the collection in its recent history. Since the Museum first opened its doors to the public in 1926 as the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, it has ...
India Thompson reflects on ownership and emotional attachment through intricately woven reed sculptures, transforming everyday domestic objects into meditations on home in the age of renting. India Thompson: Looks Like Home explores emotional attachment to the ordinary domestic objects in the places we call home in the age of renting. By meticulously weaving works from reed, ...
