Timken Museum of Art
1500 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101
The only always-free museum in Balboa Park, the Timken Museum of Art offers a permanent display of European and American masterpieces from the Putnam Foundation Collection. Featuring Russian icons from the 15th Century, tapestries from the 17th Century, and gut-wrenchingly poignant Crucifixion by Murillo, the five-room collection makes for a leisurely art-walk outing. It even has a Rembrandt — a Rembrandt, folks — titled Saint Bartholomew. And The View of Volterra by Jean-Baptiste-Camille. And Eastman Johnson’s The Cranberry Harvest, and Island of Nantucket.
Daily half-hour to hour tours available. Closed on Mondays but open Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to 4:30pm and on Sunday from 1:30 to 4:30pm.
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Hours
| Sunday | 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. |
| Tuesday | 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. |
| Wednesday | 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. |
| Thursday | 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. |
| Friday | 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. |
| Saturday | 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. |