Bowers Museum

Bowers Museum
Belltower Entrance
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Established1936
Location2002 N. Main St, Santa Ana, California
Coordinates33°45′48″N 117°52′06″W / 33.76331°N 117.86820°W / 33.76331; -117.86820
TypeArt museum, cultural art
DirectorSean O'Harrow
Websitewww.bowers.org

The Bowers Museum is an art museum located in Santa Ana, California. The museum's permanent collection includes more than 100,000 objects, and features notable strengths in the areas of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, Native American art, the art of Asia, Africa, and Oceania, and California plein-air painting. The Bowers organizes and hosts special exhibitions from institutions throughout the world, and travels exhibitions nationally and internationally. The museum has a second campus two blocks south of the main site, Kidseum, a children's museum with a focus on art and archaeology. The Bowers Museum and Kidseum are located in Santa Ana 6.4 km (four miles) south of Disneyland.