EXHIBIT ARCHIVE

Surf Art – Exploring Californias Coastal Culture Archive Exhibits

Surf Art – Exploring Californias Coastal Culture

A dual exhibition at the California Surf Museum and Oceanside Museum of Art, Surf Art:…

CSMSeptember 2, 2025

Stars Cars and Guitars Archive Exhibits

Stars Cars and Guitars

Grand Opening event on Sunday, June 9, 2024, this “blast from the past” exhibit demonstrates…

CSMJune 5, 2024

3rd Annual AR Gurrey Jr. Surf Photography Competition Archive ExhibitsStories

3rd Annual AR Gurrey Jr. Surf Photography Competition

3rd Annual A.R. Gurrey Jr. Surf Photography Competition Results ~Joel T. Smith, author of The…

CSMJune 6, 2025

2nd Annual AR Gurrey Jr. Surf Photography Competition Archive ExhibitsStories

2nd Annual AR Gurrey Jr. Surf Photography Competition

2nd Annual A.R. Gurrey Jr. Surf Photography Competition ~Joel T. Smith, author of The Illustrated…

CSMJune 3, 2024

The Dynamic Duo, The V-Dubs Have Arrived Archive Exhibits

The Dynamic Duo, The V-Dubs Have Arrived

The Dynamic Duo, The V-Dubs Have Arrived The brother/sister combination of Jack and Reid Van…

CSMNovember 28, 2023

Legendary surf photographer Jeff Divine shares John “Doc” Ball’s early career of surf photography Archive ExhibitsStories

Legendary surf photographer Jeff Divine shares John “Doc” Ball’s early career of surf photography

John Heath “Doc” Ball 1907-2001 Doc Ball, a Los Angeles-area dentist and avid surfer, was…

CSMJuly 28, 2023

The Science of Surfing Archive Exhibits

The Science of Surfing

The Science of Surfing Come see this eye-opening fun and informative exhibit as we explore…

CSMApril 26, 2023

Donald Takayama: Shaping Boards and Lives Archive ExhibitsStories

Donald Takayama: Shaping Boards and Lives

It can be said that something becomes “magical” by its effect and the resulting charmed…

CSMApril 17, 2022

Let’s Boogie! Tom Morey and the Evolution of the Boogie Board Archive Exhibits

Let’s Boogie! Tom Morey and the Evolution of the Boogie Board

Then, in the early 1970s the modern bodyboard was launched — a soft, flexible piece…

CSMJuly 12, 2021

Riding Giants Archive Exhibits

Riding Giants

Big wave surfboards and photos of where they are being ridden around the world.

CSMSeptember 10, 2020

Artistry in Wood Archive Exhibits

Artistry in Wood

Surfboards made of various exotic woods by local famous board makers.

CSMSeptember 10, 2020

Bob Simmons Foam Sandwich Surfboard 1950 Archive ExhibitsCSM SurfboardsStories

Bob Simmons Foam Sandwich Surfboard 1950

Simmons Airplane Wing Construction Technique by John Giles (Aug. 13, 1923 – July 12, 2010)…

CSMMarch 29, 2020

Healing Power of Wave-riding Archive Exhibits

Healing Power of Wave-riding

“Surfing is not about one person, it’s not about me, or you. it is about…

CSMApril 7, 2019

Making Waves: Hunter Pochop Archive Exhibits

Making Waves: Hunter Pochop

CSM is proud to feature 14-year-old Hunter Pochop as our current grom in the Making…

CSMMarch 5, 2020

Making Waves inductee Zack Flores Archive Exhibits

Making Waves inductee Zack Flores

In April, 2019 the California Surf Museum featured local phenom Zack Flores as our very…

CSMMay 26, 2019

China Beach: Surfers, the Vietnam War, and the Healing Power of Wave-riding Archive Exhibits

China Beach: Surfers, the Vietnam War, and the Healing Power of Wave-riding

“China Beach: Surfers, the Vietnam War, and the Healing Power of Wave-riding” is a ground-breaking…

CSMApril 8, 2019

Nat Young – Nat’s Nat and That’s That! Archive Exhibits

Nat Young – Nat’s Nat and That’s That!

Robert “Nat” Young was born in 1947 in Sydney, Australia. He began surfing at age…

CSMApril 9, 2019

Eddie Aikau Archive Exhibits

Eddie Aikau

Eddie Aikau had the lineage of a king, and he became a modern member of…

CSMApril 9, 2019

The Legendary Greg Noll Archive Exhibits

The Legendary Greg Noll

Colorful, charismatic, headstrong, and larger-than-life, Greg Noll was born in 1937 and decided early on…

CSMApril 9, 2019

The 1966 World Championships – A Defining Moment in Competitive Surfing Archive Exhibits

The 1966 World Championships – A Defining Moment in Competitive Surfing

Although the competitive field was full of excellent surfers from seven nations, the matchup between…

CSMApril 9, 2019

Making Boards the Hurley Way! Archive Exhibits

Making Boards the Hurley Way!

Bob Hurley started out as a surfboard shaper in Huntington Beach in the 1970s. Throughout…

CSMApril 9, 2019

Billabong Salute to Pipeline Archive Exhibits

Billabong Salute to Pipeline

Three factors inspired the concept of this exhibit: the legendary reputation of the wave at…

CSMApril 8, 2019

World Surfing Champion Kelly Slater’s Surfboard Archive Exhibits

World Surfing Champion Kelly Slater’s Surfboard

Kelly Slater, a supernaturally talented pro surfer from Cocoa Beach, Florida, has reinvented virtually every…

CSMApril 9, 2019

A Brief History of Surfboards: Wood, Foam to Fiberglass Archive Exhibits

A Brief History of Surfboards: Wood, Foam to Fiberglass

Beginning with wooden plank surfboards reminiscent of surfing’s roots in Polynesia, the exhibit follows surfboard…

CSMApril 9, 2019