The Museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
New at the Museum! Kumeyaay Comics by the Kumeyaay Visual Storytelling Project is now on view. For the most updated information on parking in Balboa Park, please refer to the City of San Diego website.
The Homeward Project
Relational Repair through Community Care
For more than a decade, the Museum has worked with Native American and Indigenous communities across the globe to repatriate and steward cultural materials in alignment with their wishes.
In 2025 – 110 years after our founding – the Museum launched The Homeward Project to accelerate this work. The Homeward Project is our enhanced commitment to audit all cultural materials in our care and support community-led decisions about their future return, stewardship, or display.
In the last year, our Cultural Resources team grew from four staff to a team of eight to support this work, and we continue to expand.
Our goal is to finally make good on our commitment to the hundreds of Indigenous communities whose belongings and ancestors we took, objectified in the name of “science,” and refused to return for decades.
Repatriation at the Museum
The Museum of Us supports the repatriation of cultural resources to all descendent communities. Ultimately, we are interested in stewarding cultural resources only with the full consent of descendent communities. Therefore, the Museum strongly supports repatriations to descendent communities both within the United States and internationally, inclusive of Native American Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities. We take an action-oriented approach that centers the perspectives and worldviews of the descendent community. We acknowledge that the repatriation of ancestral human remains and cultural resources is an integral part of confronting past injustices and enabling the practice and revitalization of cultural traditions.
Learn more about repatriation and NAGPRA at the Museum.
Repatriation Report
The 2025-2026 Repatriation Report
The Museum's repatriation efforts have seen incredible growth since the launch of The Homeward Project in July 2025.
Through the inaugural public Repatriation Report, readers will learn how we are deepening our decolonial practice through ambitious repatriation and consented stewardship activities; what communities we have initiated and kept relationships with; and how we are weaving together past actions, future plans, and lessons learned to create a road map for institutional and museum field-level change.
Read and download the full 2025-2026 Repatriation Report.
Learn More
Learn More about the Museum's policies and guiding principles.
The Museum of Us recognizes that it sits on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Kumeyaay Nation. The Museum extends its respect and gratitude to the Kumeyaay peoples who have lived here for millennia.
The Museum is open daily, Monday through Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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