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In the heart of Balboa Park's Plaza de Panama just east of downtown San Diego, the San Diego Museum of Art occupies one of the most architecturally distinctive museum buildings on the West Coast. The museum opened in February 1926 as the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego in a striking Spanish Plateresque Revival building designed by William Templeton Johnson, with the elegant carved limestone facade modelled on the celebrated University of Salamanca in Spain and featuring detailed sculptural relief...