Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
(
www.balboapark.org
; Balboa Park; Passport (s entry to each museum within one week) adult/child
$53/29, Stay for the Day (five museums in one day) $43; Combo Pass (Passport plus zoo) adult/child
$89/52)
GOOGLE MAP
; 619-238-1233;
www.rhfleet.org
;
1875 El Prado; adult/child $13/11, incl Giant Dome
Theater $17/14; 10am-5pm Mon-Thu, to 6pm Fri-Sun; )
, with its Giant Dome movie
Prado; adult/child $12/4.50; 10am-5pm Mon-Tue & Thu-Sat, from noon Sun, also 5-9pm Thu Jun-
www.timkenmuseum.org
; 1500 El Prado; 10am-4:30pm Tue-Sat, from 1:30pm Sun)
, with works
by masters such as Rembrandt, Rubens, El Greco, Cézanne and Pissarro; and the
Mingei
619-239-0003;
www.mingei.org
;
1439 El
Prado; adult/child $8/5;
10am-5pm Tue-Sun;
)
, featuring folk crafts from around the
world.
GOOGLE MAP
; 619-696-0199;
www.sdmrm.org
;
Casa de Balboa, 1649 El Prado; adult/child under
6yr $8/free; 11am-4pm Tue-Fri, to 5pm Sat & Sun; )
, the
Museum of Photographic Arts
dent/child $8/6/free; 10am-5pm Tue-Sun, to 9pm Thu late May-Aug)
, the
Spanish Village
11am-4pm)
and the
Marie Hitchcock
619-685-5990;
www.balboaparkpuppets.com
; Balboa
Park; admission $5.50;
11am, 1pm & 2:30pm Wed-Sun late May-early Sep, shorter hr early Sep-late
May;
)
Downtown San Diego
Downtown San Diego was a rough place in the 19th century, full of saloons, gambling
joints, bordellos and opium dens. By the 1960s it had declined to a skid row of flophouses
and bars.
But thanks to strong bones and a local preservation and restoration movement, historic
buildings have been restored and collectively renamed the
Gaslamp Quarter
, now full of
