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The Bowers Museum is located in Santa Ana, California, in the United States. The museum offers exhibitions, lectures, art classes, travel programs, children's art and music education programs, and other community events. The museum's philosophy is to help people learn about other cultures through their arts, and offer a greater understanding of themselves and an appreciation of the world. ==History== The museum's name comes from Charles Bowers, a late 1800s Orange County land developer, who donated the land on which it stands to the City of Santa Ana. The building was constructed in 1931, after the death of Ada Bowers (Charles's wife) who left the property unoccupied. The new building remained empty for four years after because the Great Depression prevented the city from paying any operating funds. The Charles W. Bowers Memorial Museum first opened the doors of its Mission Revival-style building in 1936 as a city-run museum devoted primarily to the history of Orange County. In 1987, the City of Santa Ana closed the museum, to reopen as a totally transformed building. In October 1992, the Bowers opened its facility (some six times larger than the original museum) to a crowd of over 17,000 people. On February 18, 2007, the Bowers went through a second expansion and opened the new Dorothy and Donald Kennedy Wing. With the new wing, the museum added and doubled its exhibition space, constructed a 300-seat auditorium, and created an indoor space to host events of up to 500 people. The facilities have expanded in size from the original to more than today; its annual attendance has risen from 54,000 in 1993 to 150,000 today; the staff has grown from 38 in 1992 to 77 today; and membership has increased from 200 members in 1992 to 10,000 today. The Bowers has been accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bowers Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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