These popular 90-minute performances are staged aboard the Maritime Museum of San Diego’s 16th-century Spanish galleon San Salvador. Guests will be fully engaged in pirate theatrics at the dock and underway on San Diego Bay. This hilarious interactive show puts visitors right in the middle of the pirate action. Participants will be sworn in as part of the ship crew, trained how to navigate, sword fight, bail water from a sinking ship, escape from the King’s Jail, swab the deck and other pirate skills. Choose from two 90-minute performances at 10:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. Tickets include general admission! So arrive early and check - in 15 to 30 minutes before your show. Then after you return to the Museum docks, continue the fun as your explore the rest of the Maritime Museum fleet and all of the fascinating below decks exhibits!

Maritime Museum of San Diego partners with San Diego Pirate Adventures to bring to you this Pirate - themed Bay cruise and 90-minute performance staged aboard the Spanish galleon replica San Salvador. 

Guests will be fully engaged in pirate theatrics at the dock and underway on San Diego Bay. Upcoming 2024 performance dates, with two shows available select Saturdays starting at 10:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m.

Please check - in 15 to 30 minutes ahead of your performance time ticket.

Sept 21
Oct 19
Nov 30
Dec 28

If you are looking for a waterfront playground experience with Pirates..this is IT! Guests will set out to San Diego Bay for unforgettable pirate theatrics. A perfect treat for out-of-town visitors and locals alike!

Remember tickets INCLUDE General Admission. Tour the Maritime Museum fleet and exhibits before or after!

Restorative yoga sessions are held weekly at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday evenings at the Museum of Us. All are welcome, regardless of physical ability, age, or yoga experience. Classes are held in the Museum’s historic rotunda by yoga instructor, Lunita Velásquez. The evening classes promote relaxation and restoration by strengthening the mind-body connection with deep stretching, breathwork, and a welcoming space. 

Kara Cooney will discuss her latest book, Recycling for Death, a meticulous study of the social, economic, and religious significance of coffin reuse during the Ramesside and early 3rd Intermediate periods. Funerary datasets are the chief source of social history in Egyptology, and the numerous tombs, coffins, Books of the Dead, and mummies of the 20th and 21st Dynasties have not been fully utilized as social documents, mostly because the data of this period is scattered and difficult to synthesize. This lecture is the culmination of 15 years of coffin study, analyzing coffins and other funerary equipment of elites from the 19th to the 22nd Dynasties to provide essential windows into social strategies and adaptations employed during the Bronze Age collapse and subsequent Iron Age reconsolidation.

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