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  • October 2026

  • Thu 1
    Wild San Diego Now Playing with an image of a bird

    Wild San Diego

    January 6, 2025 - November 19, 2026
    San Diego Natural History Museum (The Nat) 1788 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, United States

    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 ...

    Free
  • Thu 1
    Otter swimming in water

    Sea Otters: A Wild Family Adventure

    November 21, 2025 - October 31, 2026
    Fleet Science Center 1875 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States

    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, ...

  • Thu 1
    A vibrant and dynamic promotional image featuring a celestial-themed digital artwork with vivid colors and intricate patterns, conveying a sense of depth and exploration in the night sky. The image is created for DeepSky, a marketing campaign, and includes the DeepSky logo in the bottom right corner.

    Deep Sky

    December 22, 2025 - December 31, 2026
    Fleet Science Center 1875 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States

    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 ...

    $19.95 – $24.95
  • Thu 1
    doll made out of corn husks

    Farm to Craft

    February 14 @ 10:00 am - November 15 @ 5:00 pm
    Mingei International Museum 1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States

    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 ...

    Free – $15.00
  • Thu 1
    Green glass bulbs wrapped in string

    To Catch a Fish

    May 2 @ 10:00 am - November 1 @ 5:00 pm
    Mingei International Museum 1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States

    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 ...

    Free – $15.00
  • Thu 1
    wicker basket

    India Thompson: Looks Like Home

    May 16 @ 10:00 am - October 18 @ 5:00 pm
    Mingei International Museum 1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States

    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 ...

    Free – $15.00
  • Thu 1
    Ocean Paradise with fish swimming in the ocean

    Ocean Paradise

    May 27 - November 19
    San Diego Natural History Museum (The Nat) 1788 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, United States

    Uncover the secrets of paradise. May 22, 2026 through November 19, 2026 Thousands of miles from civilization lie the keys to safeguarding our planet—three untouched atolls that give us insight into human impacts on Earth. Join us on ...

  • Thu 1
    Back from the Brink with images of crabs

    Back from the Brink

    May 27 - November 19
    San Diego Natural History Museum (The Nat) 1788 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, United States

    How do you save a species when time is working against you? May 22, 2026 through November 19, 2026 Back From the Brink tells the remarkable stories of three extraordinary animal species rescued from ...

  • Thu 1
    Cecil Beaton's Fashionable world

    Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World

    July 11, 2026 @ 10:00 am - January 10, 2027 @ 5:00 pm
    San Diego Museum of Art 1450 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States

    Photographer, fashion illustrator, Oscar-winning costume designer, social caricaturist, and writer Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) was an extraordinary force in the twentieth-century British and American creative scenes. This is the first exhibition dedicated to ...

    Free – $25.00
  • Thu 1
    Basketball with a picture of Kobe Bryant

    Community Spotlight: Sherman Heights Community Center

    September 10 @ 10:00 am - November 9 @ 5:00 pm
    Mingei International Museum 1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States

    To honor Día de los Muertos we collaborated with Sherman Heights Community Center and local artists Lidia Martinez and Francisco Soto to create an altar.   Día de los Muertos Ofrenda: ...

    $5.00 – $8.00
  • Thu 1
    Old Globe

    Topdog/Underdog

    September 25 - October 18
    The Old Globe 363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, CA, United States

    Broadway director Steve H. Broadnax III returns to the Globe after last season’s thrilling Appropriate to direct an intimate new staging of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer Prize–winning modern classic, which The New York Times hailed ...

  • Thu 1
    Haunted Trails balboa park with a skull image

    Haunted Trails

    September 25 - November 1
    Balboa Park San Diego, CA, United States

    San Diego’s favorite haunted tradition, The Haunted Trail of Balboa Park, is back with two horrifying haunted houses in one: The unpredictable 3,500 square foot Experiment Maze and the mile-long ...

    $35.00 – $50.00
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