Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
We’re not your typical structured museum with stiff curators, cold halls, and strict rules. We like to go outside and get our hands dirty, pick things up and take a closer look, laugh, skip, or maybe even jump for joy. Because learning is messy and we all learn by doing, not sitting. That’s why we offer a different approach to discovering the natural world: one where you’re free to wander, ask “silly” questions, and explore on your own terms. And when you come here you’ll see we’re a museum unlike anything else. In a nutshell, we’re naturally different.
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Mission
The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History inspires a thirst for discovery and a passion for the natural world.
Promoting Sustainability
The Museum promotes the preservation of the Earth's natural systems as an urgent priority and fosters a sense of collective responsibility, necessary for maintaining biodiversity and for the well-being of our own species.
Connecting Our Communities
The Museum is a community resource and a welcoming, accessible center for community engagement. We use the full range of the human experience to reach and connect people of all ages and backgrounds, transcending geographic, economic, and cultural boundaries.
2559 Puesta del Sol
Santa Barbara, CA
805-682-4711
10:00 AM–5:00 PM
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Sea Center (bonus footage)
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Museum Tour with James O'Mahoney in Santa Barbara California
A behind the scenes look at the nether-regions of the Museum & the Santa Barbara Surfing Museum with one of the most interesting people on the planet, James O'Mahoney. Interview by Dan Levy - Juice Magazine.
O’Mahoney is a surfer, skateboarder, hang glider, pilot, collector, photographer, race car driver, stunt man, safari survivor, patriot, adventurer, competitor and a world class waterman. “O” is also one of the first skateboard media moguls, the keeper of the great Pete Peterson surfboard, king of the U.S. Skateboarding Association. and the World Skateboarding Association, mastermind behind the legendary Signal Hill skateboarding races, proud owner of the “Apocalypse Now” surfboard and a rebel with too many causes. He is the man responsible for getting the word skateboard in the dictionary and the organizer of the first World Records for skateboarding, amongst too many other firsts in skateboarding to mention. Here’s to “O” – a true hero and icon.
You can find James O'Mahoney at the Santa Barbara Surfing Museum most days, and a visit to this treasure-filled paradise should be on everyone's list of things to do. It will blow your mind!
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Sea Center
The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Sea Center is located on Stearns Wharf and fulfills the mission of the Museum to inspire a passion for the natural world.
At the Sea Center visitors of all ages can enjoy interactive exhibits, opportunities to work like scientists, a theater showcasing the wonders of the Santa Barbara Channel, hands-on close encounters with sea creatures, and a live shark touch pool. Children can crawl through a 1,500-gallon tidepool tank to see ocean life from a different perspective. The Sea Center is an engaging, interactive marine education facility that allows visitors to discover the fun in science and the wonders of the natural world.
Live Dive at the Sea Center on Stearns Wharf
Live Dive is a free educational program. Check our calendar on sbnature.org or the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Sea Center's Facebook page for upcoming dates.
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum & Museum of Natural History
B enjoyed his trip to Santa Barbara and wants to go back soon to visit other places we didn't get to visit!
Behind the Scenes S01 E04 featuring Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Thanks to the producers of Behind the Scenes for featuring our exhibits and collections on their show! This episode originally aired on KEYT (ABC) October 27, 2018. Dibblee Collection Manager of Earth Science Jonathan Hoffman, Ph.D., discusses a variety of research in the Department of Vertebrate Zoology. President & CEO Luke J. Swetland explains how Gladwin Planetarium and Palmer Observatory provide a field guide to Santa Barbara’s night sky, and introduces Chad, the iconic Blue Whale Skeleton.
Santa Barbara Pier: Sea Center
This is Part 1 of our trip! Check out part 2, where we explore jellyfish:
Music by Kevin Macleod.
Santa Barbara Natural History Museum
Santa Barbara Natural History Museum is a great place to visit with your kids when visiting this part of Southern California. It’s packed with loads of local information and wildlife.
Just 2 hours drive north of Los Angeles, this coastal location is the perfect getaway for anyone seeking a beautiful beachside getaway with easy access from Los Angeles. Santa Barbara enjoys pleasant temperatures all year round aka Mediterranean climate and has lots of gorgeous Spanish architecture.
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History is located right behind the Old Santa Barbara Mission so it’s a good idea to see this right before or after the Mission. Outside the museum, there’s a 74-foot Blue Whale skeleton. Once inside visitors are treated to several exhibit halls where they are shown all about the wildlife, topography and human history of Southern California, especially the Santa Barbara region.
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Places to see in ( Santa Barbara - USA )
Places to see in ( Santa Barbara - USA )
Perfect weather, beautiful buildings, excellent bars and restaurants in Santa Barbara California, and activities for all tastes and budgets make Santa Barbara a great place to live and a must-see place for visitors to Southern California. Check out the Spanish Mission church first, then just see where the day takes you.
Santa Barbara is a city on the central California coast, with the Santa Ynez Mountains as dramatic backdrop. Downtown, Mediterranean-style white stucco buildings with red-tile roofs reflect the city’s Spanish colonial heritage. Upscale boutiques and restaurants offering local wines and seasonal fare line State Street. On a nearby hill, Mission Santa Barbara, founded in 1786, houses Franciscan friars and a museum.
Santa Barbara has a range of neighborhoods with distinctive histories, architectures, and cultures. The Mesa stretches 2.5 miles (4.0 km) from Santa Barbara City College on the east to Arroyo Burro County Beach (or Hendry's/The Pit to locals) on the west. The Mesa embodies a beach vibe. The neighborhood has beach access to Mesa Lane Beach, as well as Thousand Steps Beach. Mission Canyon contains the wooded hilly area beginning at the Old Mission and extending along Foothill Road, north and east into Mission Canyon Road and Las Canoas Road.
The Riviera encompasses an ocean-facing hillside and back hillside extending for approximately two miles, with the north side extending from Foothill Road to Sycamore Canyon Road, and the south side from the Santa Barbara Mission to North Salinas Street. The Westside (west of State Street) lies predominantly in the lowlands between State Street and the Mesa, including Highway 101, and also reaches down to Cliff Drive, incorporating Santa Barbara City College.
The Eastside (east of State Street) is generally the area east of State to the base of the Riviera, and includes Santa Barbara Junior High School, Santa Barbara High School, and the Santa Barbara Bowl. The Waterfront comprises roughly commercial and tourist-oriented business structures along Cabrillo Blvd including Stearns Wharf, the Santa Barbara Harbor and the breakwater, and extending East toward the Bird Refuge and West along Shoreline Drive above the SBCC campus West.
Upper State Street is a residential and commercial district that includes numerous professional offices, and much of the medical infrastructure of the city. San Roque is located northwest of the downtown area and north of Samarkand. This area is said to be a constant 5 degrees warmer than the coastal areas, due to its greater distance from the ocean than other Santa Barbara neighborhoods. The name Samarkand comes from an Old Persian word meaning the land of heart's desire. It was first applied to a deluxe Persian-style hotel that was converted from a boys' school in 1920. Samarkand later became identified as its own neighborhood located between Las Positas, State Street, De La Vina, Oak Park and the Freeway.
A lot to see in Santa Barbara California such as :
Mission Santa Barbara
Stearns Wharf
Superior Court Of California County Of Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Zoo
Santa Barbara Downtown
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Arroyo Burro Beach County Park
Lotusland
State Street
East Beach
Shoreline Park
Leadbetter Beach
Old Mission Santa Barbara
Knapp's Castle
Goleta Beach Park
El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Sea Center
Santa Barbara Museum Of Art
Butterfly Beach
Douglas Family Preserve
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park
MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration
West Beach
Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens
Alameda Park
Casa del Herrero
Chase Palm Park
Moreton Bay Fig Tree
Seven Falls
Rattlesnake Canyon Park
Santa Barbara Public Market
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum
Elings Park
Goleta Point
San Marcos Pass
Hendrys Beach
Lizards Mouth Rock
( Santa Barbara - USA ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Santa Barbara . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Santa Barbara - USA
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Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Sea Center
Ernestine de Soto
This oral history was created in conjunction with the exhibition, Sacred Art in the Age of Contact: Chumash and Latin American Traditions in Santa Barbara on view in 2017 at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.
The exhibition brings together a diverse body of objects from Santa Barbara area collections dating from the first decades following the Chumash’s first contact with the Spanish, c. 1769-1824.
Together, these materials offer a fuller picture of the relationship between art and spirituality in both Chumash and Spanish traditions, and demonstrate the sustained deployment of Chumash visual systems by native artists in early colonial visual culture. Highlighting themes of sacred geography, language, materiality and resistance, Sacred Art investigates the mutually transformative interaction between these traditions, which have immediate implications on the ways in which the cultural dynamics of Santa Barbara County are understood today.
The exhibition is presented at two venues, the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Historical Museum and is part of the collaborative exhibition, Pacific Standard Time.
The interviews were conducted by the co-curators, Diva Zumaya and Margaret Bell, Adjunct Assistant Curators and Doctoral Candidates, History of Art and Architecture, UC Santa Barbara.
This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Great History of Santa Barbara California
This week Michael sits down with noted Santa Barbara Historian Erin Graffy to talk about what makes our community so special. Charles Fernald, family moved in 1864.
Top10 Recommended Hotels in Santa Barbara, California, USA
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Top10 Recommended Hotels in Santa Barbara, California, USA
1. Belmond El Encanto *****
2. Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara *****
3. Simpson House Inn *****
4. Bacara Resort & Spa *****
5. San Ysidro Ranch *****
6. Lemon Tree Inn ***
7. Harbor View Inn ****
8. The Fess Parker – A Doubletree by Hilton Resort ****
9. The Eagle Inn ***
10. West Beach Inn, a Coast Hotel ***
11. Hotel Milo Santa Barbara ***
Houses and flats for rent in Santa Barbara
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1. 800 Alvarado Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, United States of America
Offering sweeping Pacific Ocean views, this boutique hotel is 5 minutes’ drive away from Central Santa Barbara. It boasts an outdoor pool, a spa and wellness centre and an on-site bar and restaurant. All spacious rooms include free Wi-Fi.
2. 1260 Channel Drive, Montecito, Santa Barbara, CA 93108, United States of America
This property is 2 minutes walk from the beach. On 20 acres of lush coastal gardens and with a full spa, this beachside retreat features 3 on-site dining options. The guest rooms include Spanish-inspired furnishings and views of the grounds.
3. 121 East Arrellaga Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, United States of America
Built in 1874, this Victorian bed and breakfast is surrounded by lush landscaped grounds and 3 blocks of city parks. It features gourmet breakfast and evening wine tastings. Guest rooms have free Wi-Fi.
4. 8301 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, Santa Barbara, CA 93117, United States of America
Adjacent to the Sandpiper golf course, this Santa Barbara resort boasts beautiful ocean views, an outdoor pool and on-site dining. All guest rooms include a private patio with a view.
5. 900 San Ysidro Lane, Montecito, Santa Barbara, CA 93108, United States of America
Located 9.7 km from Santa Barbara town center, this boutique resort has an outdoor pool and hot tub and a fitness center. It offers 2 on-site restaurants. The luxurious rooms have free Wi-Fi.
6. 2819 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, United States of America
Featuring a one acre tropical courtyard and an outdoor pool, this Santa Barbara hotel offers rooms with flat-screen cable TV. It is 1.6 km from the Museum of Natural History.
7. 28 West Cabrillo Boulevard, West Beach, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, United States of America
This property is 1 minute walk from the beach. Spa Beaumontia, a full-service spa experience, is available on site at this hotel. Rooms feature a flat-screen TV and a minibar. Stearn’s Wharf is less than a 5 minute walk away.
8. 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard, East Beach, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, United States of America
This property is 2 minutes walk from the beach. Boasting a dramatic coastline location, nestled on 24 acres only seconds from pristine beaches and the city centre, this resort offers unrivaled amenities and facilities, including on-site spa services.
9. 232 Natoma Avenue, West Beach, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, United States of America
This property is 3 minutes walk from the beach. Located 10 minutes’ walk from Central Santa Barbara, this hotel serves daily hot breakfast with egg dishes and organic fruit. All unique guest rooms offer free Wi-Fi. Free guest parking is available.
10. 306 West Cabrillo Boulevard, West Beach, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, United States of America
This property is 1 minute walk from the beach. Showcasing views of the Pacific Ocean, this hotel opposite Santa Barbara beach offers a free deluxe continental breakfast. This harbour-front inn features a heated outdoor pool and hot tub. Free Wi-Fi is available.
11. 202 West Cabrillo Boulevard, West Beach, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, United States of America
This property is 1 minute walk from the beach. This oceanfront hotel in downtown Santa Barbara is a 4-minute walk from Stearns Wharf. It provides 2 heated outdoor pools and a modern fitness center.
Behind the Scenes S01 E03 featuring Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Thanks to the producers of Behind the Scenes for featuring our exhibits and collections on their show! This episode originally aired on KEYT (ABC) October 20, 2018. President & CEO Luke J. Swetland discusses the Museum's past, present, and future, Director of Exhibits Frank Hein shows off our transformed exhibit halls, and Dibblee Collections Manager of Earth Science Jonathan Hoffman, Ph.D. gives a sneak peek into his paleontological research at our Collections & Research Center.
From Santa Rosa with Love: SBMNH Sea Cow Excavation in Channel Islands National Park
Join our paleontology crew on beautiful Santa Rosa Island as they unearth the first sea cow discovered on the Channel Islands! This documentary short was filmed during the recent excavation led by our Dibblee Collection Manager of Earth Science Jonathan Hoffman, Ph.D. Stay up-to-day with research on the sea cow at our website: sbnature.org/seacow
Stearns Wharf Pier Santa Barbara
Stearns Wharf filmed with my Phantom 3 Standard in Santa Barbara.
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In collaboration with: De Nunzio Cinematography
Best Attractions and Places to See in Santa Barbara, California CA
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List of Best Things to do in Santa Barbara, California (CA)
Santa Barbara County Courthouse
Casa del Herrero
Cabrillo Bike Path
Reagan Ranch Center
Cold Spring Tavern
FSanta Barbara Maritime Museum
Arroyo Burro County Beach Park
Shoreline Park
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Santa Barbara Scenic Drive