The San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park was designed by William Templeton Johnson and Robert W. Snyder. Appleton S. Bridges sponsored it and donated it to the City of San Diego on completion. It opened as the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego on February 28, 1926, which matches the infobox. The text says construction took two years but gives no dates.
The style is Plateresque, designed to harmonize with the 1915 Panama-California Exposition buildings. The heavily ornamented door is inspired by a University of Salamanca doorway, the Cathedral of Valladolid influenced the exterior and interior motifs derive from Toledo's Santa Cruz Hospital.
A west wing and sculpture court added in 1966 doubled the size, and an east wing followed in 1974. It was renamed the San Diego Museum of Art in 1978. The article gives no hours or fees.
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