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This place was very pleasent surprise. Balboa park has many smaller museums and this one looked fairly samll from the outside but had quite extensive displays. Leave a Comment
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This Balboa park museum is a hall fo fame of sorts for San Diego's most famous sports figures. It features the famous players for the Padres and Chargers and also famous San Diegans who made it big on pro teams of other cities. Leave a Comment
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Thanks to an exhibit of French artisit Niki de Saint Phalle's sculptures at the Garfield Conservatory in Chicago, the instant I saw "Nikigator" (1991) outside the Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park, I knew that it was one of her sculptures. Her sculptures are colorful, whimsical, exaggerated and larger than life, many of them are women known as "nanas" and many are animals.
There are two other of her sculptures in Balboa Park that I saw, also near the Mingei Museum is "Poet and Muse", and near the Hall of Champions is "#23 Basketball Player" which coming from Chicago I knew to be Michael Jordan's number with the Chicago Bulls.
Niki de Saint Phalle lived in San Diego from 1994 until her death in 2002. I saw references to Queen Califia’s Magical Circle in Escondido's Kit Carson Park, a sculpture garden which was her last major project but I couldn't get what appeared to be the official website to open up. But I assume it's still there and it looked like a cool place to visit if you enjoy her work. Leave a Comment
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The train museums and the medeival torture museums are in particular unique. Leave a Comment
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 EL PRADO - MAIN STREET OF
BALBOA PARK by matcrazy1
It's much more than a park itself (I mean parks which I saw in Europe). It's a huge area northeast of San Diego downtown - a park with wide streets (boulevards) with 15 museums, various exhibitions, botanical gardens, Spanish/Mexican style architecture, art centers etc., etc.
It's just America's largest urban cultural park! And I liked there a lot!
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 The California Quadrangle by matcrazy1
Opposite the California Building a mission style building was constructed. It was connected to the main building by two arcaded passageways with massive, arched gates to enclose the Plaza de California.
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