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California Surf Museum Nominated Again for USA TODAY 2024 10Best Readers’ Choice Award! We were thrilled when last year we made it to #2 in voting for "Best Attraction for Sports Fans"…

Oceanside, CA — The California Surf Museum (CSM) is pleased to announce that Chris Carter, distinguished television and film writer/producer and creator of the now legendary TV series “The X-Files,” will serve…

This latest announcement means San O is safe, at least for another few decades. “California just signed a new deal with our federal partners to keep San Onofre open as a state…

“Being a girl does not make me feel like it is harder to excel.” - Caity Around the age of 10, Oceanside’s Caitlin Simmers caught the attention of local surfers and the…

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,…

Alive on Arrival: Dale Dobson by Robert Wald Ocean Magazine cover photo: Dale Dobson at Big Rock, La Jolla. Photo by Rick Doyle.

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…

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…

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.…

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…

In 1986 CBS 8's Chris Saunders met up with three seasoned surfers who wanted to start a surf museum.

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'…

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.…