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UPDATED: The Red-Tailed Hawks Have Hatched! April 16, 2013 Our two red-tailed hawk eggs have hatched! For more than a month the dutiful parents have been nesting on the California Dome, right here at the top of the city, and incubating two eggs. See our earlier pictures and information from a San Diego Zoo bird expert. And with the happy news, it's also time to announce the names of all four red-tailed hawks. We gathered all the suggestions sent in... Read the rest
A Sparkling Start to an Exhibit April 2, 2013 Prized family heirlooms and keepsakes from San Diegans make up the heart of the Rites of Passage exhibit, which opens this Saturday, April 6. One of those families is that of Andrew Mansiouk, who last week stopped by to help dress the mannequins which display the Mansiouks' gorgeous Laotian outfits. We took a few pictures and thought you might like to see them. Thank you to Andrew, the Mansiouk family... Read the rest
The California Dome's New Tenants: Red-Tailed Hawks March 28, 2013 UPDATE: The chicks have hatched! We have new tenants in the California Dome! A pair of red-tailed hawks has made a nest of sticks and twigs and mama hawk is brooding over at least one egg. You can see the nest from the... Read the rest
Sketching SDMoM March 5, 2013 Here at SDMoM we love creativity, unconventionality, and fresh ways of doing things. We also love when some aspect of the human experience can be explored and described in one of those ways. That's why we love the sketchnotes shared with us by Jason Alderman. Jason regularly visits the museum and attends our events, always with his sketchbook in hand. He documents what he sees and hears with sketches, then shares the finished pages with us via social media or email, inciting an in-office... Read the rest
Among the Lovely Bones February 8, 2013 If you’ve seen Quentin Tarantino's latest movie, Django Unchained, you've seen a Bone Clone replica. It’s an amazing lifelike replica of a real body part. Leonardo DiCaprio's character pontificates at the supper table about the old slave who raised him, while holding the slave's skull — or rather, a bone clone. ... Read the rest
Past Meets Present: A Visual History of Balboa Park January 23, 2013 How much has Balboa Park changed in the last 100 years? Dr. Dave Roberts, history buff and expert photographer, will answer that question as he shares images and stories of the park's transformation. In 1868, San Diego city founders set aside 1,400 acres of land for a city park, but for the next forty years the land went undeveloped. In 1915, the ... Read the rest
Buy Thrilling Books and Support the San Diego Museum of Man! January 15, 2013 Generosity comes in lots of forms, but how about from an author of fiction thrillers? San Diego native Andrew Peterson does just that: he generously gives 50% of all sales from his debut thriller, First to Kill, to the San Diego Museum of Man. Andrew’s books tell the story of former Marine sniper Nathan McBride, a hired gun who uses his unique skills for private clients. His... Read the rest
Tower Dreams January 11, 2013 The view from the California Tower at the San Diego Museum of Man is magnificent. At your feet is the cultural center of Balboa Park, with its museums, theaters, well-ordered gardens, and the San Diego Zoo. To the east are arid mountains set... Read the rest
Almost Featured in "From the Vault!" December 14, 2012 Choosing among over 400,000 ethnographic, physical anthropology, and archaeological objects from around the world to showcase in our latest exhibit, From the Vault,was not an easy task. Many of the pieces that ended up in the exhibit are favorites of the staff or pieces that have not been on display in a long time, if ever. Here are a few pieces that we didn't include but thought were too interesting to keep to ourselves. ... Read the rest
Spotlight on the Kumeyaay November 8, 2012 Did you know that San Diego County has more Native American reservations than any other county in the United States? The over 20,000 Native Americans that live on those reservations are collectively known today as the Kumeyaay (also called Tipai-Ipai, Kamia, or formerly Diegueño), though they live in thirteen different bands. The thirteen different bands are primarily grouped together based on a shared,... Read the rest