We’ve created the History Hub to keep you up to date on the San Diego History Center and our locations in historic Balboa Park and the Junipero Serra Museum in Presidio Park.
This is the place to find the latest information on our exhibitions, public and educational programming and interactive events.
This is the place where you can find our news releases, TV appearances, newspaper and magazine stories. When we make the News, you’ll find it here!
Oct 04, 2011
The San Diego River Improvement Project has garnered a prestigious award from the American Society of Landscape Architects and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The Landmark Award recognizes work completed 15 to 50 years ago that has retained “design excellence over time” and “significantly contributes to the public realm.”
Aug 01, 2011
David M. Kahn to Step Down as San Diego History Center’s Executive Director
Kahn to lead the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, NY
San Diego, Calif.—San Diego History Center (SDHC) announced today that their Executive Director, David M. Kahn, will step down on August 31. Kahn joined SDHC in August 2008 and will assume his new position as Executive Director of the Adirondack Museum in upstate New York.
Jul 25, 2011
No less than Henry Van Dyke, a professor of English literature at Princeton University, called “The Mission Play” by John Steven McGroarty “the greatest of all the world’s pageant dramas.”
The three-hour extravaganza played in Southern California for 20 years, starting in 1911, attracting more than 2.5 million people with the slogan, “If you haven’t been to see the Mission Play, you haven’t seen California.”
