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Bowers
Bowers may refer to: Persons *Bowers (surname) Places ;Antarctica * Bowers Mountains * Bowers Piedmont Glacier ;United Kingdom * Bowers, Staffordshire, England * Bowers Gifford, Essex, England ;United States * Bowers, Delaware * Bowers, Indiana * Bowers, Pennsylvania * Bowers, Wisconsin * Bowers House (other), several structures * Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, California * Bowers Stadium, Sam Houston University, Texas Other uses * Bowers & Wilkins, a loudspeaker company in the United Kingdom * USS Bowers (DE-637), USS ''Bowers'' (DE-637) * ''Bowers v. Hardwick'', a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision * ''Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co.'', a 1926 U.S. Supreme Court decision * Bowers Coaches, a bus company based in the High Peak area of Derbyshire in England * Bowers' operators, a way to write large numbers * Betty Bowers, a fictional character See also * Bauer (other) * Bower (other) {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowers Museum
The Bowers Museum is an art museum located in Santa Ana, California, 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. History Ada Elvira Bowers and her husband, Charles W. Bowers, a late 19th-century Orange County citrus grower and land developer, donated the land on which the museum stands to the city of Santa Ana as well as $100,000 to build the museum. The building was completed in 1932 but was no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
