If, in the 1950s and 1960s you had a Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays or Hank Aaron baseball card, or in the 1980s or 1990s you had a few choice Nolan Ryan cards,…
CSMMay 7, 2024
California Surf Museum hosted the showing of the legendary surf film 5 Summer Stories and a question and answer opportunity with Director and editor Greg MacGillivray.
CSMApril 10, 2024
Alive on Arrival: Dale Dobson by Robert Wald Ocean Magazine cover photo: Dale Dobson at Big Rock, La Jolla. Photo by Rick Doyle.
CSMApril 7, 2024
This quintessential California Surf Museum is diving into the history of surfing and the science behind the sport. California is known for its amazing surfing but do you know the history of…
CSMJanuary 30, 2024
The Tom Keck: EXPOSED exhibit was on display at the California Surf Museum’s Coast Highway location from April 8, 2006 – Feb. 24, 2008. For the exhibit, Tom selected a number of…
CSMJanuary 20, 2024
Jack Van Wagoner and Natalia Wunderlich won the 2023 Surfing For Hope Longboard Classic, a North America Regional Longboard Qualifying Series 1,000, in pristine, two-to-three foot conditions at Morro Rock over heavily-contested fields.…
CSMJanuary 10, 2024
If this was a taste of what is in store for 2024, we might be in for the biggest year since 1969. That’s a historic milestone. Most of the media was focused…
CSMJanuary 4, 2024
In 1986 CBS 8's Chris Saunders met up with three seasoned surfers who wanted to start a surf museum.
CSMSeptember 18, 2023
California Surf Museum Finishes in Top Two for a USA TODAY 10Best Readers’ Choice Award! Thank you to all who voted for CSM as "Best Attraction for Sports Fans" for USA Today's 10Best Readers'…
TaraSeptember 1, 2023
John Heath “Doc” Ball 1907-2001 Doc Ball, a Los Angeles-area dentist and avid surfer, was one of the first photographers to seriously document the sport, using a waterproof box system that he…
CSMJuly 28, 2023
Vicky spent her teenage years surfing with her mother: they sat next to each other in the line-up, awaiting the next promising wave; they traveled to promote women’s surfing; they won competitions.…
CSMMarch 22, 2023
Mike Richardson’s credentials would land him securely in the Encyclopedia of Shapers — if there was such a reference book. From the late 60s on, Mike left his mark on thousands of boards. He’s probably…
CSMFebruary 9, 2023
The Makai board has been on display at CSM for several years. It is solid redwood, a classic Alaia shape, and its obvious age earned it a spot in the Timeline exhibit,…
CSMJune 1, 2022
It can be said that something becomes “magical” by its effect and the resulting charmed condition it imbues upon the beholder. The term has often been applied to describing certain surfboards.
CSMApril 17, 2022
In 2018, California Surf Museum volunteer Bill Schildge and staff member Jared Henderson road-tripped up the California Coast to San Francisco on a journey to bring back a legendary board. The 1952…
CSMApril 20, 2021
