Established | 1936 |
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Location | 2002 N. Main St, Santa Ana, California |
Coordinates | 33°45′48″N 117°52′06″W / 33.76331°N 117.86820°W |
Type | Art museum, cultural art |
Director | Sean O'Harrow |
Website | www |
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.