LIBERTY STATION
QUINTESSENTIAL SAN DIEGO CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS
• Imagine your attendees exploring the very best of local arts and culture by touring San Diego’ s three California-designated Cultural Districts: BALBOA PARK, one of the largest urban cultural parks in the country, with 18 museums, beautiful gardens and world-class performing arts; and BARRIO LOGAN, known for its Chicano Park that is home to more than 80 murals celebrating the neighborhood’ s history and heritage.
• San Diego is a major hub of live theater, thanks to the national renown of LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE and the OLD GLOBE THEATRE, both of which have won multiple Tony Awards and sent numerous shows to Broadway— from“ Jersey Boys” to“ Into the Woods” to“ Come From Away.” Visitors can take in a play or musical at those or dozens of other excellent professional companies around town, including LAMB’ S PLAYERS THEATRE in Coronado.
• The MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART San Diego in La Jolla boasts stunning views of the Pacific, inviting new exhibit spaces and one-of-akind encounters with a wide variety of art.
• The MINGEI INTERNATIONAL Museum, welcomes visitors to take in the richness of folk art from around the globe and across the centuries, set in beautifully conceived new surroundings amid the cultural treasures of Balboa Park.
• Attendees will delight in the chance to wander through the historic LIBERTY STATION, the former Naval Training Center in Point Loma, where artistically renovated Spanish Revival-style mess halls and barracks now house restaurants, art galleries, museums and dance studios, alongside expansive outdoor spaces. A new $ 43 million worldclass arts venue, the JOAN AND IRWIN JACOBS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, recently debuted at Liberty Station.
LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE
• Your attendees will feel like kids again as they color outside the lines at THE NEW CHILDREN’ S MUSEUM, which offers up whimsical displays and interactive art exhibits in Downtown’ s ultimate green event space.
• Create magic at Downtown’ s historic BALBOA THEATRE, a grand 1920s movie palace that will thrill architecture and live-entertainment aficionados alike.
• Experience live music in a gorgeous waterfront setting at THE RADY SHELL AT JACOBS PARK, the San Diego Symphony’ s visually stunning and acoustically engineered venue at Embarcadero Marina Park South, just behind the Convention Center.
• Your attendees’ enjoyment will take flight amid the historic aircraft and spacecraft at the art deco SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM in Balboa Park, with exhibits including a replica of Charles Lindbergh’ s Spirit of St. Louis.
• Offer up the chance to combine the enchantment of the underwater world with a breathtaking sunset on the outdoor tide-pool plaza of the BIRCH AQUARIUM AT SCRIPPS, perched atop the spectacular bluffs of La Jolla.
• Relive rich maritime history on the iron-hulled barque Star of India, built in 1863. It’ s a Downtown waterfront icon and just one of many historic vessels at the MARITIME MUSEUM OF SAN DIEGO.
• Let your attendees rock out and revel in musical history with the interactive displays at Carlsbad’ s MUSEUM OF MAKING MUSIC, whose five galleries explore the evolving bonds between people and musical instruments.
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