Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA), San Diego

Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA)
1649 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92101
Located in Balboa Park in the Casa De Balboa building, east of the main traffic circle and central fountain.
619-238-7559
http://www.mopa.org/

Tues-Sun: 10a-5p
Holiday Hours: 10:00 am - 3:00 p.m. (Includes: President's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve)
Closed: Martin Luther King Day, Thanksgiving Day, December 4 & 5, Christmas Day, New Year's Day

Adults $6
Seniors, Students, Retired military & their dependants $4
Active military & dependants, Children < 12 FREE

The Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) is devoted to collecting, conserving and exhibiting the entire spectrum of the photographic medium. The Museum’s endeavors consistently address cultural, historical and social issues through its exhibitions and public programs.

The museum’s permanent collection offers a rich photographic heritage, both as an expressive medium and a documentary record. The collection’s 9,000 images include works by Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Stieglitz, and Ruth Bernhard among 850 other photographers, and a wealth of representative examples of different photographic styles, genres and techniques, from early 19th century daguerreotypes and albumen prints to pictorialism, cutting-edge documentary and photojournalism, and digitally constructed imagery. While the entire collection illustrates the complex and varied history of the medium, in terms of subject matter and genres, MoPA's collection is particularly strong in mid-twentieth century Soviet Russian photography, and social documentary photography and photojournalism.

The Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego mounts eight to ten major exhibitions per year that represent the history of the medium, contemporary works, photojournalism, and varied photographic processes.

The museum also has a classroom, print-viewing room, and a 20,000-volume library, as well as archival facilities and support areas, and a 226 seat state-of-the-art theater, that fulfills the museum's mandate of presenting the arts of still photography, video and film.

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