The Balboa Park institution traces its roots to amateur naturalists whose goal was to create a group that could be 'a primary source of scientific culture"
The Nat has grown from a small society of natural history lovers and collectors to a big museum with more than 8 million specimens, an active research and conservation arm, spectacular programs, and award-winning exhibitions.
The host of NPR’s \“Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!\” will take the stage in San Diego this weekend, plus other arts events to check out. And, one local filmmaker talks about his romantic drama.
Eva Struble's "Frasera" spans multiple stories of the San Diego Natural History Museum's atrium and pairs botany and field biology with an imaginative, thoughtful sense of play as the museum looks toward 150 years.