Four-story science museum featuring interactive exhibits, fossils, live animals, and a giant-screen theater that explores the natural world of Southern California and Baja California.
General Information
Extended hours on select Fridays until 10pm
Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Day
Seniors (62+), Students, Military (with ID): $20
Youth (3–17): $14
Children 2 & under: Free
How to Get There
Take I-5 S to CA-163 N, exit at Park Blvd, turn left onto Village Place, and follow signs to the museum located in Balboa Park.
Overview
The San Diego Natural History Museum is a museum located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1874 as the San Diego Society of Natural History. It is the second oldest scientific institution west of the Mississippi and the oldest in Southern California.
Current exhibitions
Fossil Mysteries is a highly interactive exhibition tracing the 75-million-year fossil-rich prehistory of southern California and Baja California, Mexico. With a large display of fossils, dioramas, murals, models, and interactives, the exhibition chronicles evolution, extinction, ecology, and Earth processes from the age of the dinosaurs to the Ice Ages.
The 2015 installation of Coast to Cactus in Southern California highlights the region's biodiversity.
In 2016, the museum renovated space in the Research Library to create the Eleanor and Jerome Navarra Special Collections Gallery, which contains the new permanent exhibition, Extraordinary Ideas From Ordinary People: A History of Citizen Science.
In 2017, the Museum drew on the abundance of material in its collections to create the new exhibition, Unshelved - Cool Stuff from Storage. Specimens curated by the several departments that comprise the Biodiversity Research Center of the Californias (BRCC) contributed. Meticulously preserved and catalogued material from the research collections of Birds and Mammals, Botany, Entomology, Herpetology, Marine Invertebrates, Mineralogy, Paleontology, and the Research Library provides a "backstage" view into the Museum's remarkable holdings.
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