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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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 a journey across wild tropics, pristine shores, and thriving reefs few will ever see in person. Narrated by Diane Lane and featuring music from Jack Johnson and Coldplay, Ocean Paradise explores the stories ...
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 extinction. Discover the coordinated efforts that saved a tiny fox in California’s Channel Islands, a fabled monkey in China’s Yunnan Province, and the iconic Christmas ...
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 Beaton’s fashion and portrait photography, which he elevated into an art form. This exhibition showcases Beaton at his most triumphant – from shaping the public ...
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: Honoring Athletes Presented by Sherman Heights Community Center, this year’s Día de los Muertos ofrenda draws inspiration from the vibrant floral structures found in cemeteries throughout ...
Fleet Science Center 1875 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
Across the heartland of North America, a wetland kingdom of connected rivers, lakes, and waterways has provided an oasis for wildlife since the retreat of the last ice age over 10,000 years ago. Today, these water highways are home to countless species. Alongside herds of bison in the Great Plains and salamanders in the smallest ...
Mingei International Museum 1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
Painted Prayers: The Japanese Folk Art Tradition of Ema exhibition highlights one of Japan’s most fascinating folk painting traditions, ema – house-shaped wooden votive plaques offered as prayers in Japan’s Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. Most ema are small and traditionally feature hand-painted imagery of deities, animals, or objects, representing wishes as general as good fortune for the coming year ...
San Diego Junior Theatre at Casa del Prado Theatre 1650 El Prado #208, San Diego, CA, United States
The world-famous Willy Wonka is opening the gates to his mysterious factory, but only to a lucky few. Young Charlie Bucket and four other golden ticket winners will embark on a life-changing journey through Wonka’s world of pure imagination including chocolate waterfalls, nutty squirrels and the great glass elevator, all to be revealed by Wonka's ...
From sweeping curves and polished chrome to elegant details and advanced engineering, these cars capture a time when automotive design became an expression of modern luxury and progress.
San Diego Museum of Art 1450 El Prado, San Diego, CA, United States
Icons are religious images in the Greek or Russian tradition. They differ from devotional pictures in Western Christianity in several important ways. Icon painters worked in two dimensions, focusing on symbolic representations, rather than illusions of space and volume. Icon scenes are situated beyond earthly time and space, with gold representing both light and landscape. ...