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Natural History Museum Founded in 1874, the San Diego Society of Natural History is the oldest scientific institution
in southern California, and the second oldest west of the Mississippi. In its initial years, the
 Society was the region's primary source of scientific culture,
serving a small but growing community eager for information about its natural resources. Early society members established a weather station, petitioned to
create Torrey Pines State Reserve, and garnered support for the new San Diego Zoological
Society. In 1912, the first public exhibits opened in a downtown hotel. In 1917, the Society purchased a vacant Balboa Park building from the
1915 Panama-California Exposition.
Here the Society moved its growing collections and library to create the San Diego Natural History Museum. The Board defined its commitment
"to educate and help people know and love nature" and began a variety of educational programs, many of them using specimens from museum collections in city and
county schools.
Scientific collections are a continuing investment by society in the effort to understand the natural world. In the face of disappearing
habitats, species extinctions, and the destruction of geological and paleontological sites, the specimens in our collections have become nonrenewable resources.
The San Diego Natural History Museum will be the premier collections-based environmental education and natural history research resource in
our region. Sources:
http://www.sdnhm.org/
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