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The San Diego Museum of Art is a fine art museum in Balboa Park in San Diego, California, that houses a broad collection with particular strength in Spanish art. It opened as the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego on February 28, 1926, and changed to its current name in 1978.
El Prado Complex is a historic district in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. The 13-acre (5.3 ha) complex includes 13 contributing buildings and one contributing structure. The 13-acre (5.3 ha) complex includes 13 contributing buildings and one contributing structure.
This is a list of museums in San Diego County, California, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public ...
The museum is a white, modern building in marble and bronze housing a five-room gallery. Shortly after the museum opened, John Walker, of the National Gallery of Art , praised its collection, some of which had been on loan at his institution until the Timken neared completion: [ 1 ]
MCASD Downtown – 1100 Kettner Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92101. In 1986 MCASD established a small gallery space in downtown San Diego and later opened a larger downtown outpost in 1993 inside America Plaza adjacent to the San Diego Trolley line, designed by artists Robert Irwin and Richard Fleischner along with architect David Raphael Singer. [12]
State Route 163 (SR 163), or the Cabrillo Freeway, is a state highway in San Diego, California.The 11.088-mile (17.844 km) stretch of the former US 395 freeway runs from downtown San Diego just south of an interchange with Interstate 5 (I-5), extending north through historic Balboa Park and various neighborhoods of San Diego to an interchange with I-15 in the neighborhood of Miramar.
John D. Spreckles, the creator of the Spreckels organ pavilion, gifted the organ and the building to the city of San Diego. When it was given to the city, it was said it would be used for free entertainment for the people. John D. Spreckle s has invested in or owned many places such as the Hotel del Coronado, and the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The U.S. Grant Hotel is a historic hotel in downtown San Diego, California. It operates under a franchise of Marriott International as part of their Luxury Collection brand. One of the oldest hotels in San Diego, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is 11 stories high and has 270 guest rooms in addition to meeting rooms ...