Explore the museum after hours—we're open late the third Friday of every month (and most Fridays during summer). Enjoy access to all exhibitions, pop-up programming, and our rooftop patio for food and drinks. Admission is half-price after 5 PM; free for members and Balboa Park Explorers. Learn more.
Celebrate the Art of Science exhibit, curated by the UC San Diego Library, at Nat at Night!
The Baja California Peninsula: our neighbor in nature. Explore towering mountains, desert flats, and isolated islands, and follow along with researchers working to conserve the peninsula’s wild beauty in our newest permanent exhibition.
Wildlife is all around, even when we don’t see it. So, what exactly are animals up to when we’re not looking? Find out in this new photography exhibition featuring animal candids taken with the help of camera trap technology.
Skulls contains close to 200 skulls from theNAT’s research collections of animals from all over the world, from the tiny to the spectacular.
From dinosaurs to mastodons, discover the rich fossil history of our region. In this major exhibition, created by the Museum.
Learn and explore the natural world through play. This new space invites our youngest visitors to play under a shade tree, search for hidden secrets along a wooden fence, or read their favorite book in a cozy potting shed.
A look behind the scenes in our storage areas is like a cross-section of the diversity of nature itself. You’ll find everything from tiny beetles to enormous whale bones.
This new, permanent exhibition revolves around the history—and the future—of citizen science, the idea upon which the Museum was founded in 1874.
A permanent exhibition that will invite visitors to explore the unique habitats of southern California, from the coastal wetlands and urban canyons to the high mountains and the desert.
The Nat has a Vivarium—a facility in which we care for our live animals—in the basement of the Museum. We’re bringing these animals out and into the public gallery located on Level 1 just off the Atrium.
The Baja California Peninsula: our neighbor in nature. Explore towering mountains, desert flats, and isolated islands, and follow along with researchers working to conserve the peninsula’s wild beauty in our newest permanent exhibition.
