For the introductory blog post to San Diego’s historical landmarks, click on San Diego’s Historical Landmarks.
#1: El Prado Area Designation, part 1
#1: El Prado Area Designation, part 2
#1: El Prado Area Designation, part 3
#1: El Prado Area Designation, part 4
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#1: El Prado Area Designation, part 15
The last place to visit on the north side of the El Prado on our easterly trek is the San Diego Natural History Museum:
Natural history, of course, is just about anything that doesn’t involve humans, such as minerals and wildlife.
They often have exhibits specifically for schoolchildren, so it’s not unusual to see huge crowds of schoolchildren waiting to go in together. This fall they have “Weekly Science Sundays with Ms. Frizzle” and
I don’t go as often as I should, and I don’t really know why because I really enjoy natural history.
The museum has a huge collection of preserved reptiles:
(I’d rather see living reptiles, and for that I go to the San Diego Zoo.)
My favorite exhibits are usually the traveling exhibits, such as the All That Glitters exhibit from a few years ago. Here are a few butterflies from All That Glitters:
The upper floors also feature artwork, of which this was my favorite when I was last there:
The museum occasionally has somewhat whimsical art on exhibit, such as this man climbing a rope on the north side of the museum:
No. It wasn’t a real man but it was garnering a lot of attention from passersby.
The upcoming exhibit that I want to see is The Discovery of King Tut, opening October 11, 2014. I missed King Tut when he toured the world a decade ago. Not this time. Advance ticket purchase is strongly recommended.
The Museum is open seven days a week from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. except for being closed on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Admission is $17 for adults, $15 for those age 62 and over; $12 for military with ID, college students with ID, and youth age 13-17; $11 for children age 3-12; and free for children under the age of 3. There also are discounts for groups of ten or more, but reservations must be made in advance.
Visit online at the San Diego Natural History Museum.
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love the butterflies
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They were for sale, too, but you don’t want to know the price……….LOL
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good, don’t tell me 🙂
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AS always, I love your cat stamp photos. How do you do that?
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First you have to have a cat that loves to have its picture taken. Second, see my post here: http://russelrayphotos2.com/2014/04/20/placing-a-stamp-frame-around-your-pictures/
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First the butterflies, absolutely beautiful and no, I won’t ask the price but what creative talent. Next, Zoey. Don’t tell me you were in the Loo and she was trying to get in?
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No. She must play fetch with her red rings in the morning before she will eat. She could be dying of starvation but won’t eat until she’s had a 15-minute sessions of red ring fetch.
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Ah, I should have guessed, the red ring. You wrote about it early in the year. It’s stress relief, Zoey style eh?
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Yep…..LOL
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Gorgeous butterflies.
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I only recently started following your blog, but I need to check this series out. I visited the park about 12 years ago while in SD for a conference, but it was a short visit and I didn’t get to see much.
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And this is only a small part of the park! Of course, the Zoo takes up the most space in the park.
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In the butterflies, do you know about the sparkle? are they semi precious? precious? glass?
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Oh, they are precious alright. Very precious. To the tune of thousands of dollars. All of them were for sale, with the cheapest butterfly being $10,000 and the most expensive that I saw going for $22,000.
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