Current Exhibitions


	TUNA! Celebrating San Diego's Famous Fishing Industry April 21, 2012 - December 31, 2012 TUNA! Celebrating San Diego's Famous Fishing Industry showcases the tuna industry in San Diego over the course of 100 years, focusing on the era when San Diego was the world’s tuna fishing capital, from the 1920s until the 1960s.
	Local Treasures from the History Center's Collections January 15, 2012 - May 31, 2012 Have you ever wondered how museums acquire their artifacts?
	Creating an Artistic Basis August 2, 2010 - October 31, 2012 Creating an Artistic Basis: Local Artists Groups from the Early 20th Century features 40 works from San Diego History Center's collection. The exhibition includes oil works from San Diego's most celebrated artists - Charles Fries, Maurice Braun, Charles Reiffel, Belle Baranceanu, Edith White and more. Image: Roofs, Marius Rocle 87.23.1

TUNA! Celebrating San Diego's Famous Fishing Industry
April 21, 2012 - December 31, 2012

TUNA! Celebrating San Diego's Famous Fishing Industry showcases the tuna industry in San Diego over the course of 100 years, focusing on the era when San Diego was the world’s tuna fishing capital, from the 1920s until the 1960s.

Local Treasures from the History Center's Collections
January 15, 2012 - May 31, 2012

Have you ever wondered how museums acquire their artifacts?

Creating an Artistic Basis
August 2, 2010 - October 31, 2012

Creating an Artistic Basis: Local Artists Groups from the Early 20th Century features 40 works from San Diego History Center's collection. The exhibition includes oil works from San Diego's most celebrated artists - Charles Fries, Maurice Braun, Charles Reiffel, Belle Baranceanu, Edith White and more.

Image: Roofs, Marius Rocle 87.23.1

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.
	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.

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Permanent Exhibitions