The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, one of southern California's finest art museums, features nationally recognized collections and special exhibitions of international importance. Highlights of the museum's remarkable permanent collection include antiquities; 19th-century French, British, and American art; 20th-century and contemporary European, North American and Latin American art; Asian art; photography, and works on paper.

Recent special exhibitions of significance include Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston:  A Passionate Collaboration; Worshiping the Ancestors:  Chinese Commemorative Portraits; and Art of the Americas:  Latin America and the United States, 1800 to Now! 

Museum visitors will also enjoy the interactive children's gallery, the café and the Museum Store.