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Bus Trip to Cleopatra: The Exhibition

Thursday, 7:30 am
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Featured objects from Alexandria on display for Cleopatra: The Exhibition at the California ScienCenter

Visit the only West coast appearance of Cleopatra: The Exhibtion, a dramatically staged, 13,000 square-foot exhibit featuring the largest collection of Cleopatra-era artifacts from Egypt ever assembled in the U.S. The $70 includes transportation, refreshments on the bus, museum admission fees, and the IMAX movie, Mysteries of Egypt. For more information, please contact Pat Stromberg at 619.697.3476.

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ArtStop: The Human Beast

Thursday, 12:00 pm - 12:15 pm
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Lovis Corinth. Portrait of Alexander Freiherr von Reitzenstein, 1913. Oil on Canvas

Ariel Plotek, Ph.D., Assistant Curator, discusses The Human Beast.

ArtStops are 15 minute, staff-led tours of one to three works on view. Museum curators and educators present these brief yet always enlightening and informative talks every Thursday and third Tuesday at noon.

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Exhibitions on View

  • Young Art 2013: The Story of Me
  • Piranesi, Rome, and the Arts of Design
  • Pacific Horizons
  • Alternative Accounts

Docent Tour Schedule- October 2012

Follow the links below for the topic of each tour:

Monday, 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m.
Tuesdays, 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m.,  2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m.
Thursdays, 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m.
Fridays, 11:00 a.m. (4th and 5th Fridays only), 2:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m.
Saturdays, 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
Sundays, 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
 

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Amazing artstop in progress @SDMA with the brilliant John Marciari, @BPOC_SD documenting so check the mueum's YouTube if you missed it!
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