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Museums | |||
| » California Center for the Arts, Escondido | view map | |||
| The center is an architectural masterpiece set in a beautifully landscaped 12-acre campus. | |||
| » Centro Cultural de la Raza | view map | |||
| Located in Balboa Park, the Centro Cultural de la Raza is dedicated to creating, promoting, and preserving Chicano, Mexican, and Native American art and culture. | |||
| » Escondido Children's Museum | view map | |||
| Located in the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, the museum builds creative minds in children. | |||
| » Escondido History Center | view map | |||
| The Escondido History Center (formerly Heritage Walk Museum) in Grape Day Park includes the first library, a barn and windmill, a Victorian house, the 1888 Santa Fe Railroad depot, a railroad car and model train, and a working blacksmith shop. | |||
| » Fallbrook Historical Society Museum | view map | |||
| The museum includes a variety of historical displays and research materials. Admission is free. | |||
| » Japanese Friendship Garden | view map | |||
| Located in Balboa Park, the Garden is filled with symbolic meaning conveying a sense of the harmonic oneness between Man and Nature. | |||
| » Julian Pioneer Museum | view map | |||
| A historical building housing artifacts of Julian history. | |||
| » Mingei International Museum | view map | |||
| Located in Balboa Park, the museum presents dynamic, changing exhibitions of traditional and contemporary folk art, craft and design. | |||
| » Mingei International Museum, San Diego North | view map | |||
| The Mingei International Museum is the crown jewel of Escondido’s collection of museums, galleries and studios, and a work of art in itself. The museum exhibits Southern California's largest collection of mingei (art of the people). | |||
| » Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego | view map | |||
| MCASD is the preeminent contemporary visual arts institution in San Diego County with a collection of more than 4,000 works of art created since 1950. | |||
| » Museum of Making Music | view map | |||
| The museum presents visitors with an interactive walk through the past 100 years of American music and music making. | |||
| » Museum of Photographic Arts | view map | |||
| Located in Balboa Park, the museum is one of the only museums in the country dedicated exclusively to the photographic arts. | |||
| » Museum of San Diego History | view map | |||
| Located in Balboa Park, the museum presents the colorful and diverse history of the region, interpreting San Diego's growth since the 1840s.
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| » Pioneer Room, Escondido Public Library | view map | |||
| The Pioneer Room is located in the Escondido Public Library and is a full archival facility. | |||
| » Reuben H. Fleet Science Center | view map | |||
| Located in Balboa Park, the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center is San Diego's favorite place to experience the excitement and fun of Science. | |||
| » San Diego Aerospace Museum | view map | |||
| Located in Balboa Park, the museum brings to life aviation's rich heritage through a dazzling collection of over 65 U.S. and foreign aircraft and spacecraft.
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| » San Diego Automotive Museum | view map | |||
| Located in Balboa Park, the museum showcases over 80 classic and historically significant vehicles. | |||
| » San Diego Hall of Champions-Sports Museum | view map | |||
| Located in Balboa Park, the museum is as exciting, entertaining and enthralling as the athletic accomplishments and hometown heroes it celebrates. | |||
| » San Diego Maritime Museum | view map | |||
| Home of "The Star of India", the world's oldest active sailing ship. | |||
| » San Diego Model Railroad Museum | view map | |||
| Located in Balboa Park, the museum is the world's largest operating model railroad museum. | |||
| » San Diego Museum of Art | view map | |||
| Located in Balboa Park, the museum is one of the country's leading art institutions, with approximately 500,000 visitors annually. | |||
| » San Diego Museum of Man | view map | |||
| Located in Balboa Park, the San Diego Museum of Man is a museum of anthropology with some of the greatest treasures in the city. | |||
| » San Diego Natural History Museum | view map | |||
| Located in Balboa Park, the museum features its own giant-screen film, Ocean Oasis, taking visitors on an incredible journey through Baja California and the Sea of Cortés. | |||
| » SignOnSanDiego.com | view map | |||
| SignOnSanDiego.com is the leading online source for San Diego news, entertainment, visitor and classified information. To find out everything for San Diego--get on it. | |||
| » Timken Museum of Art - Putnam Collection | view map | |||
| Located in Balboa Park, the Timken Museum of Art is devoted to the presentation and preservation of a select collection of European and American masterworks, including a small collection of Russian icons. | |||
| » USS Midway / San Diego Aircraft Museum | view map | |||
| Naval aviation museum, open 10am-5pm daily (except Thanksgiving and Christmas). Limited wheelchair access. | |||
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