San Diego Natural History Museum
The San Diego Natural History Museum is a museum in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1874 as the San Diego Society of Natural History.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Opening hours:
9:00 AM—5:00 PM
May 30th—August 30th: Thursday—Friday 9:00 AM—10:00 PM - Type: Museum
- Description: museum in San Diego, California
- Also known as: “Natural History Museum”, “SDNHM”, “sdnhm.org”, and “The Nat”
- Address: CA
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Timken Museum of Art and San Diego Zoo.
Timken Museum of Art
Museum
The Timken Museum of Art is a fine art museum in Balboa Park in San Diego, California, close to the San Diego Museum of Art. It was established in 1965. Timken Museum of Art is situated 700 feet west of San Diego Natural History Museum.
San Diego Zoo
Zoo
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The San Diego Zoo is a zoo in San Diego, California, United States, located in Balboa Park. It began with a collection of animals left over from the 1915 Panama–California Exposition that were brought together by its founder, Dr. San Diego Zoo is situated 1,800 feet northwest of San Diego Natural History Museum.
Bea Evenson Fountain
Fountain
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Bea Evenson Fountain is an outdoor fountain in San Diego's Balboa Park, in the U.S. state of California. Designed by noted modernist architect Homer Delawie, the fountain honors Bea Evenson, the founding president of the park's Committee of 100, organized in the late 1960s to save or reconstruct the buildings of the Panama–California Exposition of 1915.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Downtown San Diego and Bankers Hill.
Downtown San Diego
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Downtown San Diego is the thriving central business district of San Diego. A heavily gentrified area with plenty of tourist amenities, Downtown serves as a hub of business and entertainment, with plenty of restaurants, shops, and nightlife to take in, as well as a few attractions, including several museums and the home of the San Diego Padres baseball team.
Bankers Hill
Suburb
Bankers Hill is a long-established uptown neighborhood near Balboa Park in San Diego, California. The area acquired the name "Bankers Hill" because of its reputation as a home for the affluent.
Cortez Hill
Quarter
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Cortez Hill is a neighborhood in the northeast part of downtown San Diego, California.
San Diego Natural History Museum
- Categories: building, nonprofit organization, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: San Diego County, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
32.73206° or 32° 43′ 55″ northLongitude
-117.14736° or 117° 8′ 51″ westElevation
292 feet (89 metres)Open location code
8544PVJ3+R3OpenStreetMap ID
way 79288741OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yes
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“San Diego Natural History Museum” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Museu d’Història Natural de San Diego”
- Chinese: “圣地亚哥自然历史博物馆”
- Chinese: “圣地亚哥自然史博物馆”
- Esperanto: “Sandiega Naturhistoria Muzeo”
- Hebrew: “המוזיאון לתולדות הטבע של סן דייגו”
- Japanese: “サンディエゴ自然史博物館”
- Persian: “موزه تاریخ طبیعی سن دیگو”
- Spanish: “Museo de Historia Natural de San Diego”
- “SDNHM”
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