Current Exhibitions


	Local Treasures from the History Center's Collections January 15, 2012 - May 31, 2012 Have you ever wondered how museums acquire their artifacts?
	Our City, Our Neighborhoods December 12, 2011 - March 18, 2012 Curated by students from the University of San Diego’s graduate history program, Our City, Our Neighborhoods celebrates the rich histories of eight unique neighborhoods located within the city limits.

Permanent Exhibitions


	Place of Promise The History Center’s permanent exhibition on San Diego history is already at its halfway mark! Witness history in the making as we develop and build this four-phase project. Now is a great time to come for a visit as phases one and two are currently open!
	Phase One: Walk on San Diego In the first completed gallery of this evolving core exhibition, visitors can literally walk on San Diego. A thirty by thirty foot map of the county extends from wall to wall across the floor. Also featured are two large 1930s murals artist Charles Reiffel, a San Diego streetcar from 1910, and various interactive components. As the rest of the exhibition is developed over the next two years, the stories of San Diego will be interpreted through images, artifacts, and oral histories from the History Center's collection.
	Phase Two: Building an Early Identity Focusing on San Diego’s first inhabitants, a kaleidoscope of Kumeyaay, Spanish, Mexican and early American settlers up to 1885, this new gallery examines the significant impact these pioneering cultures had in shaping the city’s cultural identity and physical development.
	Changing Times for San Diego Women Located just outside our Research Library in Balboa Park, "Changing Times for San Diego Women" features images of women from the Union-Tribune Photograph Collection from 1950-1955.
	Life on Presidio Hill Native peoples used this hill above Old Town long before the Spanish, the Mexicans and then the Americans came. A thousand years ago, the Tipai-Kumeyaay people lived in small groups on the flat area at the base of Presidio Hill.