Galleries
Open: Tuesday through Sunday 10:00am – 5:00pm
*Closed Mondays
(*Hours vary during Special Events)

Click here for a list of extended hours/ closings.

Closed: Every Monday, Thanksgiving Day, December 25th, January 1st, and July 4th. Galleries close at 2pm on December 24th and December 31st.

Theater
See Now Showing for dates and times of films in the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theater .

Administrative offices
Closed on Thanksgiving, Friday after Thanksgiving, December 25th (with intermittent days closed the week of Christmas through New Year's), January 1st, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, and Labor Day.

1649 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92101

MoPA is located in the Casa De Balboa building, east of the main traffic circle and central fountain.

Directions: Map
From Interstate 5 and 8 intersection:
> Go southbound on I-5, take the 10th Ave. exit
> Turn left on A St. and
> Turn left again on Park Blvd.
> Take a left onto Space Theater Way and cross the small bridge.
> Park in any of the parking lots along Space Theater Way or on Park Blvd.

At the end of Space Theater Way, you will be directly behind the Museum of Photographic Arts' building. Come around to the front of the building to enter.

MoPA's building is between the Prado Restaurant and the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center and in the same building as the Model Railroad Museum and the San Diego Historical Society.

Since its founding in 1983, the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) has been 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 (all of which are described in detail throughout this site). MoPA is accredited by the American Association of Museums and is a member-supported, private, nonprofit institution. Additional support for museum programs is provided by the City of San Diego under a program managed by its Commission for Arts and Culture, the Community Enhancement Program of the County of San Diego, as well as the California Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.