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Balboa Park, in the center of San Diego, is a similar expanse as the National Mall in DC, with a large park and a full array of museums and sights to be seen.

With its free parking, the Park is easy to get to, and once you are done a day at the zoo, it’s a short walk over to the other buildings.

I will cover the Natural History Museum in this article, and continue on in Part 2.

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Coming from NYC, we are spoiled the number of museums that we have, as well as the quality and quantity that these buildings hold.
Based on that, I hold other museums to high standards, that it’s just not possible, on their budgets, to keep up with.

With all that being said, the Natural History Museum is a little sparse, but they have a nice selection of what they have:

• Baja’s Wild Side – A collection of photographs showing off the local area
• Coast to Cactus – Showing off the animals and environment of Southern California
• Skulls – From gnats to mammals, and horns to beaks, this collection is full of all sorts of bones and skulls from the animal kingdom
• Fossil Mysteries – The exploration of 75-million years of Southern California, and the creatures that roamed this Earth before people
• Pendulum – They have a pendulum in one of their lobbies, that shifts with the Earths movement. A set of dominoes is placed around it at the start of the day, and as the day progresses they slowly get knocked over