Santa Monica Camera Obscura

The Santa Monica Camera Obscura is a publicly accessible historical camera obscura, located in Palisades Park overlooking the Pacific Ocean, in Santa Monica, California.

[1] The camera obscura was one of the attractions on the Balloon Route streetcar tour of Los Angeles.

[3] The camera obscura was originally located at the North Beach Bath House,[4] and was moved up to Palisades Park (then Linda Vista Park) in the early 1900s.

[1] The camera obscura has been in the current building, designed by Weldon J. Fulton, since November 1955.

Access to the Camera Obscura is free and open to the public during the art center's regular operating hours,[1] however the building has been closed to the public since 2020, when it was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.