The Museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Read with Us
Book & A Blanket
One of our exhibit books catch your eye? Take it and enjoy a read outside! Guests are invited to check-out exhibit books at the front desk. Book check-out includes a blanket so you can curl up in a comfortable spot outside in Balboa Park. The Book and a Blanket program is free, but all borrowed materials must be returned to the Museum by 4:30 p.m.
To borrow a book, simply take the book to the front desk and let a Visitor Experience Associate know that you would like to check out a Book & a Blanket.
Details
- Date and Time: Daily when the Museum is open, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Age: All ages
- Price: Included with admission
Book Library
In the Hostile Terrain 94 exhibit:
When it Rains - Tohono O'odham and Pima Poetry Edited by Ofelia Zepeda
A Pima Remembers by George Webb
Sharing the Desert, The Tohono O'Odham in History by Winston P. Erickson
The American Indian Intellectual Tradition by David Martinez
Where Clouds are Formed by Ofelia Zepeda
Ocean Power, Poems from the Desert by Ofelia Zepeda
Pima Indian Legends by Anne Moore Shaw
In the Maya Peoples: Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth exhibit:
Rebeldita the Fearless in Ogreland by Dr.Siu, Tanslated by Matthew Byrne
Sing Down the Rain by Judi Moreillon
Indigenous Cosmolectics by Gloria Elizabeth Chacon
Popol Vuh, The Sacred Book of the Maya, The Great Classic of Central American Spirituality, translated from the original Mayan text by Allen J. Christenson
Chiapas Maya Awakening, Contemporary Poems and Short Stories by Sean S.Sell & Nicolas Huet Bautista
Me llamo Rigoberta Menchu y Asi Me Nacio La Conciencia by Elizabeth Burgos
Other books in the Monsters Clubhouse library:
I ask about what falls away by Jason Magabo Perez
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León
Solito by Javier Zamora
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
Read With Us Programs
The Museum of Us recognizes that it sits on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Kumeyaay Nation. The Museum extends its respect and gratitude to the Kumeyaay peoples who have lived here for millennia.
The Museum is open daily, Monday through Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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