NPS-operated, the Cabrillo National Monument Visitor Center anchors Point Loma's national park with interpretive exhibits and films documenting Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo's 1542 landing at Ballast Point one mile north. Permanent exhibits open into the surrounding 160-acre Cabrillo National Monument and include the Age of Exploration room with tactile elements and a touch-screen Cabrillo voyage display, a 14-foot limestone Cabrillo statue replica carved by Portuguese sculptor Joas Chartes Almeida and installed in 1988, Junior Ranger activity books, and a They Stood the Watch coastal-artillery exhibit in the old military radio station. The accessible captioned-film auditorium runs three rotating documentaries — In Search of Cabrillo, On the Edge of Land and Sea, and First Breath: Gray Whales — plus ranger-led talks during peak seasons. Gift shop operations run through the Cabrillo National Monument Foundation year-round, with Gray Whale migration and marine mammal content drawing on regional expertise shared with research organizations including National Marine Mammal Foundation. Coordinating between the auditorium film schedule, the Junior Ranger program, ranger-led guided tours, lighthouse open-tower events on Founder's Day and Open Tower Day, and loaner wheelchair availability represents the most complex interpretive scheduling the visitor center manages.