Founded in 1936 by the City of Santa Ana through a bequest from Charles and Ada Bowers, the Bowers Museum is one of California’s finest and Orange County’s largest museums. In 1986, the museum closed its doors for a period of self-study. In response to community needs and input, it reopened in 1992 as a new cultural center, and expanded children’s programming in 1994 with the opening of the Kidseum. The museum also recently celebrated the grand opening of the 30,000+ square-foot Dorothy and Donald Kennedy Wing in February 2007. To achieve its mission, the Bowers offers exhibitions, lectures, art classes, travel programs, children’s art education programs, and other special community programs.
info@bowers.org
http://www.bowers.org
2002 North Main Street , Santa Ana, CA 92706
714.567.3600
Acorns to Artists! (Grades 3-4): An exciting new tour introducing 3rd and 4th graders to the grand sweep of California history from a sophisticated native culture through rancho days of vast herds of cattle and the hide trade to 20th Century masters of color and light who painted the beauty of the California landscape. Hands-on, interactive and fun!
China: Kingdom of the Dragon (Grades 5-12): Students will explore the wonders of ancient Chinese culture in our gallery of treasures and then meet in groups, where they will find out what makes Chinese music sound the way it does, acquire the skill of eating with chopsticks, learn how to use the original hand calculator (an abacus), explore how to predict the future with an oracle bone, and much more. We finish with a Chinese dragon myth, complete with dragon!
Land of Jade and Jaguars (Grades 5-12): Exploring the Maya Culture of Middle America: This is a hands-on interactive tour of the Classic Maya culture of Mexico. The students rotate through seven stations where they learn about the Mayan calendar, do Mayan math, visit Lord Pacal’s tomb, talk about the ancient ball game, “meet” some shamans, and discover that our favorite foods today were also the favorite foods of these ancient people. The grand finale is a readers’ theater production of a Mayan creation myth, complete with heroes, villains, masks and plenty of booing and cheering from the audience. (Art Classes: Jaguar Masks; Tooled Mythical Beasts; Face Pots)
Staff
714.567.3680
schooltours@bowers.org
We recommend that you book your tour as early as possible, but no later than six weeks in advance.
Two and a half hour Morning at the Museum tours are offered Tuesday- Friday from 9:30 am - 12:00 pm.
Bowers Museum
Museum Tour Rates:
1 - 10 Students..........$ 60
11 - 20 Students........$120
21 - 30 Students........$180
31 - 40 Students........$240
41 - 50 Students........$300
51 - 60 Students........$360
61 - 70 Students........$420
71 - 80 Students........$480