Past Exhibitions

The Lure Of Chinatown: Painting California's Chinese Communities

The Lure Of Chinatown: Painting California's Chinese Communities

  • APRIL 12, 2014 - AUGUST 31, 2014

Artists have a long tradition of travelling to far flung lands in search of revelation and artistic breakthrough. What happens when there is such a place right in your midst, yet completely foreign? 

Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies In Ancient Egypt

Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies In Ancient Egypt

  • MARCH 22, 2014 - JUNE 15, 2014

Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt is the first major exhibition to focus on one of the most fascinating aspects of ancient Egyptian culture and religion—the mummification of animals.

Beethoven: The Late Great

Beethoven: The Late Great

  • FEBRUARY 8, 2014 - MAY 18, 2014

In recognition of the 60th anniversary of the Philharmonic Society of Orange County and its 21st and final season of Dean Corey’s leadership, the Philharmonic Society

Framed: Step Into Art

Framed: Step Into Art

  • JANUARY 26, 2014 - SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Step inside the framework of famous paintings and experience art like never before in Framed: Step into Art, opening at Bowers Museum's Kidseum on Sunday, January 26, 2014.

Revolution To Romanticism: Freedom Of Expression In 19th Century European Painting

Revolution To Romanticism: Freedom Of Expression In 19th Century European Painting

  • NOVEMBER 23, 2013 - MARCH 23, 2014

Romanticism emerged as a response to the fear and promise of the American and French Revolutions, the rigidity of the Enlightenment, and the alienation that grew out of the Industrial Revolution.

Weird and Wonderful: Celebrating 75 Years of Collecting at Bowers

Weird and Wonderful: Celebrating 75 Years of Collecting at Bowers

  • CLOSED

This August the museum opens its storerooms to let you encounter the weird and the wonderful as we celebrate 75 years of collecting at the Bowers. Never and rarely-before-seen objects from the museum's diverse collection will be on display.

A Quest For Beauty: The Art Of Van Cleef & Arpels

A Quest For Beauty: The Art Of Van Cleef & Arpels

  • OCTOBER 27, 2013 - FEBRUARY 15, 2014

A Quest for Beauty: The Art of Van Cleef & Arpels was on display at the Bowers Museum from October 27, 2013 through February 15, 2014. Spanning over 100 years of history, the exhibition allowed visitors to view jewelry, watches, and precious accessories, as well as archive drawings and documents of the Place Vendôme High Jewelry Maison.

Gods & Gifts: Vatican Ethnological Collection

Gods & Gifts: Vatican Ethnological Collection

  • SEPTEMBER 29, 2013 - FEBRUARY 9, 201

From the vast holdings of the Vatican Ethnological Museum comes a presentation of indigenous spiritual pieces that will enable visitors to learn about the global significance of the objects and their journey to the Vatican. 

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