Tours
Family FavoriteLand and Sea Tours
$25–$5090-minute amphibious Land Shark tour covering Santa Barbara landmarks by road and the harbor by sea.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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Museums
Santa Barbara Surfing Museum
A Santa Barbara museum showing local surfing history through boards, memorabilia, and collectibles.
10 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 · Santa Barbara, CA
About Santa Barbara Surfing Museum
The museum focuses on the surfing heritage of Santa Barbara, presenting a collection of surfboards, memorabilia, and collectibles that traces how the sport has changed since its early days. It is housed inside Surf N' Wear Beach House and draws much of its display from the private collection of owner Roger Nance. The museum's website also notes that its boards and objects come from people closely tied to the sport. A separate Wikipedia entry describes an earlier museum of the same name at Herlena Avenue, founded by Jim O'Mahoney and opened in 1992, which held about 50 surfboards, including redwood and balsa boards, along with ukuleles. That entry describes the earlier museum in the past tense, so it may no longer be open.
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