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Statement of Purpose

The Bowers Museum celebrates this diversity by preserving and presenting the arts of world cultures.

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Highlights & Collections

Adjacent to the main Museum is the Bowers Kidseum, the only interactive cultural arts museum for children. A hands-on facility for children and their families, permanent exhibits include masks, musical instruments, puppets from around the world, an ethnic dress-up area and a Native American room. Included with admission is an art lab, face painting and storytelling (weekends only). Please call 714-480-1520 for a weekly updated schedule.

Cultural arts of the Americas, Pacific rim, and Africa. Late 19th century and early 20th century California decorative arts and paintings. Orange County history.

Pre Columbian, Native American, African, Oceanic & Pacific Islander, and Asian. Also featuring a major collection of paintings by William and Alberta Binford McClosky and a collection of artifacts of the history of Southern California.

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Exhibits & Special Events

• These strikingly realistic still lifes and penetrating portraits trace the relationship of the two turn-of-the-century painters. of the 70 McClosky paintings known to exist, 40 are part of the Bowers permanent collection.

* Realms of the Ancestors: Arts of Oceania

• Enter worlds where dreams are more real than waking, worlds where spirits of the dead are encouraged to stay among the living and worlds populated by mariners who voyaged in open outrigger canoes across thousands of miles of ocean guided by ancient knowledge of the stars, the wind and the waves.

*Power and Creation: Africa Beyond the Nile

• Africa, the birthplace of humankind, is home to some of the world's most powerful and meaningful art. The traditional works in this exhibition represent specific, important information: how to be a productive member of society, how children become mature adults, how the world and all that is in it came to be.

* Arts of Native America

• The names of many Native American tribes translate simply as "the People". This exhibition -- of ceramics and textiles from the Southwest, wood and stone sculpture from the Arctic and the Northwest, bead work from the Plains and California basketry -- demonstrate that "the People", everywhere and in every way, placed artistic expression at the center of their lives.

* Vision of the Shaman, Song of the Priest

• The study and display of pre Columbian art from Mexico, Central and South America has been at the heart of the Bowers for many years. A series of galleries communicates the power and sophistication of the mysterious culture that rose and fell in ancient America.

*California Legacies This series of exhibits illustrates the rich, colorful and diverse history of the people who settled the West and Orange County:

• Hall of Exploration -- artifacts of first European explorers; Missions and Ranchos Gallery -- prominent pioneers portray romantic and tumultuous times; Asian

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Key Personnel:

Dr. Peter Keller, President
Susan Bowers, VP of Development
Paul Dowdle

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