Museums & Exhibitions

09/24/2016 - Exhibit: Stones In The Meadow
In honor of Native American Month, the Barona Cultural Center & Museum presents "Stones in the Meadow: Irving Gill

01/21/2017 - 'Radical Machines' - Chinese Typewriter Exhibit
Be the first to discover the international debut of "Radical Machines: Chinese in the Information Age" at San Diego Chinese Historical Museum!

Explore the seemingly impossible, yet technologically crucial Chinese typewriter -- a machine that inputs a language with no alphabet, yet has more than 70,000 characters.

Experience the puzzles themselves along with other rare Chinese and Pan-Asian IT artifacts and materials from printing, telegraphy, typewriting and computing in China, Japan and Korea -- the first exhibition of its kind.

Award-winning Stanford historian Dr. Thomas S. Mullaney is the curator of the exhibit, which comes from his personal collection.

This exhibit will only be on view from Jan. 21, 2017 - April 16, 2017 at SDCHM before it moves to San Francisco, New York and Hong Kong.

Admission/Cost: $5 (Members and children 12 and under, free)

Location:
San Diego Chinese Historical Museum
Dr. Sun-Yat Sen Memorial Extension Building
328 J Street
San Diego, CA 92101
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Dates and times:
Ongoing from now until April 16, 2017
Mondays - Closed
Tuesdays through Saturdays - 10:30 AM to 4:00 PM
Sunday 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

For more information, please visit: www.sdchm.org

01/25/2017 - Talk: Touring The Louvre And The Prado Master Art Museums
This lecture explores the world-renowned Mus

01/16/2017 - Arts of Iran
The modern-day country of Iran, known in ancient times as Persia, has a history of civilization dating back approximately ten thousand years. The first few millennia of its development witnessed the rise of impressive cities such as Susa, Persepolis, and Ctesiphon, from which ruled such fabled monarchs as Cyrus the Great (559

01/21/2017 - Radical Machines: Chinese in the Information Age Opening Reception
The San Diego Chinese Historical Museum will launch the international debut of Radical Machines: Chinese in the Information Age, which explores the seemingly impossible, yet technologically crucial Chinese typewriter