Every Museum of Greater Los Angeles

San Clemente, Orange Sports Museum

Surfing Heritage & Culture Center (SHACC)

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110 Calle Iglesia, San Clemente, CA 92672

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San Clemente, Orange

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San Clemente location now closed, relocating to downtown Laguna Beach. Expected opening spring 2026

Featured in the book, Also On View: Unique and Unexpected Museums of Greater Los Angeles!
  • Museum founder Dick Metz at age ninety-four.
  • The museum holds four boards owned by Duke Kahanamoku, considered the father of modern surfing, including one bearing a portrait of King Kamehameha I that was featured in a vintage Dole pineapple advert.
  • Recreation of Dale Velzy’s shape shack, with his tools and unfinished boards.
  • A sneaker is caked with resin from the process of “glassing” boards.

Photos by Ryan Schude