CHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION
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Mission Statement
The Bowers Museum enriches lives through the world’s finest arts and cultures.
About This Cause
One of Southern California’s finest museums and Orange County’s largest, the Bowers Museum promotes human understanding through art. Its state-of-the-art facilities enable the Bowers to present world-class exhibitions from the greatest museums in the world. Its own collections are particularly strong in the areas of African, South Pacific, Asian, Native American, pre-Columbian art, and California plein-air paintings. Its location, close to four major freeways and four miles south of Disneyland, makes the Bowers an ideal destination for visitors to Southern California. The Bowers Museum’s permanent collection provides an opportunity to HIGHLIGHTS examine, compare, and contrast the highly diverse cultures of the world through time. The collection includes more than 100,000 objects, and features notable strengths in diverse areas such as pre-Columbian Mesoamerica; Native American art and artifacts; African and Oceanic art, particularly from Papua New Guinea; and California plein-air paintings. Among the artists that the Bowers has collected are William and Alberta McCloskey, Frank Colburn, William Wendt, Gardner Simons, and Guy Rose. The collection is available for viewing at bowers.org/collections. By opening its 11,000-square foot children’s museum, Kidseum, in PROGRAMS December 1994, the Bowers Museum has made a strong statement about its role in children’s education. In addition, the museum’s docents reach out to more than 80,000 school children each year through classroom visits and school tours of the museum. Bowers’ commitment to engage a broad and diverse audience is evident in the variety of exciting programs. These include family cultural arts festivals, lectures, film series, symposia, and teacher workshops.