🚗💭 Ever driven past the Bowers Museum and wondered, What’s inside? Step through our gates and explore historic artifacts, world-class exhibitions, and stories from around the globe through the array of 8 permanent galleries. And for only one more week, see the wonders of titanium art in The Eternal Garden before it closes April 13! Don’t just drive by—come see for yourself! ✨ Visit us this weekend and experience the magic of the museum. #InsideBowers #DiscoverTheBowers #MuseumWeekend #ExploreM

🎉 Happy New Year from Bowers Museum! We wish you a joyful, healthy, and inspiring year ahead. As we look back on 2025, we’re grateful for an incredible year filled with exhibitions, family festivals, educational programs, and unforgettable moments shared with you. 💛 Thank you to our visitors, members, donors, partners, and community for making Bowers Museum a place of learning, creativity, and connection all year long. Please note: The museum is closed today for New Year’s Day, but we’ll reope

Museum Registrars – you rarely see them when you visit, but they’re always there behind the scenes, ensuring that art and artifacts are safely displayed, stored, and tracked for generations of to come. Last week, the Bowers Collections team welcomed a whole host of Registrars from institutions all around the western US who gathered together to lend their expertise to a worthy project – cataloging and re-housing a selection of our extensive Native American basketry collection. Over the course of

Meet our VP of Collections and Programs, Victoria Gerard, and hear what she's missing most about the Bowers during its temporary closure. ❤️ Want more? Victoria will be hosting a live Q&A for Bowers' members next week! Visit bowers.org/join to become a member today and learn more about our new speaker series, "Friends of the Bowers," a Bowers Members exclusive perk! | Bowers Museum

The Bowers Collections team is excited to unveil our newest team member – a state-of-the-art SMA Scanmaster 0 large-format scanner! This cataloging powerhouse can scan large, flat objects like maps, prints, posters, textiles and more in stunning detail, and it even scans in 3D!We’re so excited to use this new resource to bring more of the world to you via our Digital Collection – what would you like to see us scan next? | Bowers Museum

Here at the Bowers, it’s Spring Cleaning all year long! Our Collections staff keeps a rotating schedule to make sure our objects on display are always looking their best. Artifacts have different cleaning needs depending on what they’re made of – these Vanuatu slit gongs have uneven surfaces that can snag on cleaning cloths, so for regular cleaning it’s best to simply blow the dust away! | Bowers Museum