Past Exhibitions

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The Japanese first came to San Diego in the late 19th century. San Diego was not San Francisco or Los Angeles with their large immigrant populations and there were...

The San Diego History Center in partnership with the Lambda Archives brings the first exhibition EVER in Balboa Park, focused on San Diego’s LGBTQ+ community titled LGBTQ+San Diego: Stories...

"Gaps in the Record: Vanguard Print Culture in San Diego" documents the convergence of literary and visual art practices, and independent publishing activity, in the city’s mid-twentieth-century creative community....

Ninety years of San Diego fashion is the “common thread” this year in the exhibition "Fashion Redux: 90 Years of Fashion," the annual fashion collaboration between the San Diego...

A name is shouted out, and a parcel is handed through the crowd to its eager recipient—mail call is a moment when the front line and home front connect....

The San Diego African American Museum of Fine Art (SDAAMFA) is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibit in collaboration with the San Diego History Center (Center). The exhibit will...

San Diego’s Jewish pioneers arrived with statehood in 1850 looking for adventure, good weather, better health, and, above all, the opportunity to make the American dream their own. Many...

Art & Faith: Baranceanu, Braun & Sternberg explores the artwork, lives, and Jewish heritage of three historically-important San Diego artists: Belle Baranceanu, Maurice Braun, and Harry Sternberg.

Architect Irving J. Gill was a San Diego architect, by way of Chicago, who relished the opportunity to work in this city during the end of the late 19th...

Of Animal Importance, a four-person exhibition, showcases the work of San Diego artists Laura Ball, Belle Baranceanu, Jeff Irwin, and Walter Haase Wojtyla. With the depiction of animals as...

The definitive exhibition of the Panama‐California Exposition is celebratory and engaging, demonstrating the legacy of the Expo that put San Diego on the map and created the nation’s largest...

This permanent exhibition showcases San Diego history from 10,000 BCE up to the 1915 Panama-California Exposition.

In collaboration with the San Diego Zoo, this vibrant family-friendly exhibition celebrates the Zoo’s centennial, telling the amazing story from its humble origins to its evolution as a world-famous...

Jan 22, 2016 - Mar 13, 2016: One hundred years ago, San Diego withstood one of the most torrential downpours on record, the 1916 Hatfield Flood. The flood was...