History Hub

Welcome to the History Hub at the San Diego History Center!

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!

A New Look At Our San Diego Landscape

Aug 06, 2013

San Diego, Calif.—San Diego History Center (SDHC) and Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) have collaborated with local art scholars to produce a two-museum art exhibition that offers visitors a unique and diverse perspectives from which to view our region’s landscape. The installation, titled, Nature Improved: San Diego Artists Interpret Our Landscape, will open at SDHC on September 19th and at OMA on October 26 and will continue through January 26, 2014.

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SD History Center acquires Hord sculptures

May 20, 2013

The San Diego History Center has acquired eight sculptures by the esteemed San Diego artist Donal Hord.

The work, which will be put on exhibition May 24, is from the estate of local art collector Richard Dyson.

Dyson and his partner, Robert Roberson, ran a flower shop in La Mesa and were early collectors of Hord’s work.

According to Hord’s obituary, “the collection also included paintings by the Spanish-Mexican painter Antonio Rodriguez Luna…as well as watercolors by Millard Sheets, Frederic Whittaker, and Win Jones.”

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