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!
Nov 11, 2010
It takes months of work, miles of fabric and scads of designers and technicians to create the costumes for a theater event on the scale of the Old Globe’s Summer Shakespeare Festival…
Sep 29, 2010
Early in the new year we are planning to make a dramatic change. The San Diego Historical Society will begin operating as the San Diego History Center. The idea of changing our name has been under discussion for many years, but without resolution. In the meantime, a whole family of overlapping names has mushroomed up somewhat organically around us – and it can be pretty confusing.
Sep 29, 2010
SAN DIEGO – The San Diego History Center announced today that it has received a $133,829 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to digitize, catalog and make web-accessible 7,118 images (photos and drawings) that document the lives of Indians in San Diego County between 1903 and the 1930s. The collection is the work of Edward H. Davis (1862-1951) and was donated to the History Center in the 1980s by Davis’ family.
Sep 29, 2010
SAN DIEGO – Dressing the Part: Costume Design at the Old Globe celebrates one of the great costume collections in San Diego, and presents one of the first hands-on, interactive exhibitions to be offered by the newly re-organized San Diego History Center. The collaborative exhibition emphasizes the process involved in moving costumes from concept to stage, and offers visitors behind-the-scenes access to the Old Globe costume shop and the team of professionals that create and care for the thousands of costumes and props used at the Old Globe.
Sep 14, 2010
SAN DIEGO – In the 80 years between the beginning of the Mexican War and the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924, the American West was re-created. Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845-1924, organized by the National Portrait Gallery, chronicles those changes through photographs of the men and women who contributed to the transformation of the region’s nature and identity.
