Construction of the façade of the Fine Arts Gallery, now The San Diego Museum of Art, 1925. The San Diego Museum of Art Archives.
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SDMA 100 Years
24/01/2026 - 26/07/2026
The San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego
www.sdmart.org/
SDMA 100 Years presents photographs, ephemera, and film footage of key moments in the Museum’s history of engagement with the community through decades of world-altering change. Beginning with photographs of Kumeyaay villages from the area, the exhibition looks at the Museum’s evolution from its birth at the 1915 Panama–California Exposition, to its grand opening in 1926, the conversion into a naval hospital during World War II, the modernization of Balboa Park in the 1960s and 1970s, the fanfare of blockbuster exhibitions in the 1980s and 1990s, renewal for the turn of the millennium, and a reimagined future for the next hundred years.
24/01/2026 - 26/07/2026
The San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego
www.sdmart.org/
SDMA 100 Years presents photographs, ephemera, and film footage of key moments in the Museum’s history of engagement with the community through decades of world-altering change. Beginning with photographs of Kumeyaay villages from the area, the exhibition looks at the Museum’s evolution from its birth at the 1915 Panama–California Exposition, to its grand opening in 1926, the conversion into a naval hospital during World War II, the modernization of Balboa Park in the 1960s and 1970s, the fanfare of blockbuster exhibitions in the 1980s and 1990s, renewal for the turn of the millennium, and a reimagined future for the next hundred years.