Join Balboa Park in its celebration of the 100-year anniversary of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition! Check out special exhibits, events, performances and other activities that take place throughout Balboa Park and the surrounding community. This list will be updated periodically until the end of the year. For other details and updates, visit www.celebratebalboapark.org.
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Centennial Railway Garden. Journey back in time to the 1915 Panama-California Exposition with this exhibit featuring miniature Balboa Park. Tues.-Fri., 11 am-4 pm; Sat. & Sun., 11 am-5 pm. San Diego Model Railroad Museum. www.sdmrm.org.
Balboa Park History Stroll. Learn how the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park was created, how it got its name, who came up with the Exposition idea and other trivia tidbits on this easy-paced walking tour. Visit website for tour schedule. Reservations required. San Diego History Center. www.sandiegohistory.org.
Balboa Park & the City: Celebrating San Diego’s Panama-California Exposition. The largest and most ambitious yearlong exhibition by the San Diego International Airport’s art program boasts original artwork and historic images, collectibles and artifacts that bring the 1915 Panama-California Exposition to life. Free. All terminals, N. Harbor Dr., San Diego. For details, visit www.san.org/airport-art.
California Tower Tours at San Diego Museum of Man. For the first time since 1935, Balboa Park’s California Tower is open for public tours. Experience the breathtaking, 360-degree view of San Diego this landmark tower offers. Daily; visit website for tour schedule. For ages 6 & up. www.museumofman.org.
“Journey to Space.” Through visually stunning imagery, and in collaboration with leading space experts, this Giant Screen film showcases the exciting plans NASA and the space community are working on to take humans further into space than ever before! Narrated by Patrick Stewart, the film calls attention to the reality that the space program did not die with the end of the shuttle program in 2011. Visit website for screening schedule. Reuben H. Fleet Science Center. www.rhfleet.org.
Sunday Afternoon Concerts. Free one-hour organ concerts featuring guest artists, original compositions and more. 2 pm Spreckels Organ Pavilion. www.spreckelsorgan.org.
House of Pacific Relations Lawn Programs. Member houses highlight traditional costumes, music and dance, ethnic food, and arts and crafts. Sundays, 2-3 pm. Free admission. www.sdhpr.org.
Coast to Cactus in Southern California. Through hands-on activities, life-like mounted specimens, live animals and innovative media, this exhibit helps visitors learn what it means to be a biodiversity hotspot as they journey through southern California’s habitats. Open daily, 10 am-5 pm. San Diego Natural History Museum. www.sdnat.org/coasttocactus.
Monsters. Explore monster habitats, uncover monster legends, make a monster of your own and more. Open daily, 10 am-5 pm. $6-$12.50; under 3 free. San Diego Museum of Man. www.museumofman.org.
The Museum of Photographic Arts. This admissions program offered only by MOPA, provides access to its current exhibitions including the United States premiere of the video installation, 7 billion Others. This multimedia exhibit brings together voices and video portraits from more than 6,000 individual interviews filmed in 84 countries, posing many thought-provoking questions regarding the human condition. Tues.-Fri., 10 am-5 pm. www.mopa.org.
Updated January 2016
