Inspire your child’s (and your!) imagination with these architecturally themed Tri Mags! Some say it’s like magnetic Origami. As children build, they’ll learn about positive and negative magnetic attraction. Each cube is made up of 24 large, colorful magnetic pyramids that fit together when the magnets are aligned correctly. While completing the 20 included challenges, they’ll also develop critical thinking skills. The real fun begins when they start creating their own designs, just like architects bringing their visions to life.

For ages 8 to adult

This book allows for a leisurely tour of the finest works of the Museum. Alongside the stunning color illustrations, the San Diego Museum of Art’s curatorial team has written concise, captivating texts that place each work of art in context and deepens your appreciation for the objects. Soft cover. 272 pages, 245 color illustrations.

Discover the fascinating world of European Art! This publication – the first in The San Diego Museum of Art’s Art Unframed series – is geared towards young readers and families and explores themes including religious art, landscapes, still-life painting, and portraiture through forty-seven works of art from the collection of The Museum.

Interactive features like gate folds, stickers, and fun drawing exercises provide opportunities for further investigation, while “Your Turn” activities invite you to try your own hand at creating art inspired by the work of past great masters.

NOTE: Art Unframed is an exciting new series from The San Diego Museum of Art. This series is designed to guide children and families toward a deeper understanding of important artists, ideas, and traditions in the history of art through the Museum’s Permanent Collection.

Hardcover, with gate folds and inserts. 104 pages. Preview it here.

The San Diego Museum of Art houses an important and deep collection of Italian, Spanish, and French paintings. The noteworthy collection includes paintings by Giotto, Fra Angelico, Giorgione, Veronese, El Greco, Sanchez Cotan, Zurbaran, Vouet, Goya, Ingres, among other major artists. This substantial book helps bring attention to SDMA’s collection and provides the first detailed scholarly catalogue of these paintings. Rediscover familiar names and discover unsung masters through in-depth descriptions of artists and their works in this book.

Author, John Marciari was previously the Curator of European Art and Head of Provenance Research at the San Diego Museum of Art. He is currently the Charles W. Engelhard Curator and Head of the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum.

Hardcover
367 pages

This eye-catching catalogue chronicles the first major museum exhibition devoted to the art of Ron Nagle, one of the most accomplished sculptors of his generation. Accompanying the exhibition Ron Nagle: Peripheral Cognition  this Museum-produced catalogues includes an essay by curator Ariel Plotek, Ph.D., an interview with the artist, and striking full-color, full-page illustrations of each small object featured in the exhibition. For those new to Nagle’s work this catalogue may come as a revelation – an immersion into a strange and beautiful universe of his art.

Hardcover, 79 pages.

Add a hot beverage and everyone’s clothing disappears, revealing (tasteful) masterpieces of the human form. Featuring 13 works of art from the 15th to 20th centuries.

Holds 12 oz. Disappearing mugs are not dishwasher safe, but can be microwaved.