Bowers Museum
of Cultural Art
the Bowers museum is situated in Santa Ana,
California, Orange county with outstanding exhibitions,
children's art, lectures, music education programs, art classes,
music education programs, travel programs and other exciting and
interesting community events. Their guiding philosophy strives
to help folks learn about various cultures via their arts and
provide a better understanding of ourselves and a greater
appreciation of the world we inhabit. Its name is derived from
Charles Bowers, a late 1800s Orange county land developer that
donated the land the museum occupies. They would open the doors
of their mission style structure in 1936 and experience a large
expansion in 1992, when they opened a new 63,000 square foot
building that is six times bigger that the original and welcomed
a crowd of some 17,000. Its permanent collection houses over
100,000 relics that concentrate on areas like the South Pacific,
California plein-air painting, African, Native American,
pre-Columbian, South Pacific and Asian.
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