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The museum traces its starting point to the Panama–California Exposition, which opened in 1915 on the occasion of the inauguration of the Panama Canal.The central exhibit of the exposition, "The Story of Man through the Ages," was assembled under archaeologist Dr. Edgar Lee Hewett of the School of American Archaeology (later renamed the School of American Research and since 2007 the School ...
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 Cerutti Mastodon site is a paleontological and possible archeological site in San Diego County, California. In 2017, broken mastodon bones at the site were dated to around 130,700 years ago. The bones were found with cobblestones displaying use-wear and impact marks among the otherwise fine-grain sands.
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla has reopened after a three-year, $105 million renovation. It’s worth a visit alone for its drop-dead view, which Louis Vuitton took full ...
Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada (formerly the "Museum of Man") Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology, of Wichita State University, in Kansas, USA (formerly named the Museum of Man) Musée de l'Homme (English: "Museum of Man"), Paris, France; Museum of Us, anthropology and pre-Columbian museum in San Diego, California ...
Balboa Park hosts dozens of museums and gardens, including the Museum of Us, the San Diego Natural History Museum, the Fleet Science Center, and the San Diego Air & Space Museum. The San Diego Children's Museum is located downtown. The Columbia district on San Diego Bay is home to Star of India and seven other floating museum ships and boats ...
Operated by the City in the 1,940-acre Baylands Nature Preserve, 15 miles of trails Madrona Marsh Preserve & Nature Center: Torrance: Los Angeles: Operated by the City, exhibits about the plants, birds and animals of the marsh Mary Vagle Museum & Nature Center: Fontana: San Bernardino
Douglas Sharon is a Canadian cultural anthropologist (UCLA), ethnobotanist and shamanism scholar who has directed both the University of California/Berkeley's Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the San Diego Museum of Man. He has conducted more than 40 years of field research and published on pre-Columbian and modern shamanic practices in ...