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Come join your fellow Members
for a late afternoon with hors d’oeuvres, magnificent art and
enlightened conversations
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The Bowers Museum |
The
Bowers Museum
One of Southern California's finest museums and Orange
County's largest, the Bowers Museum is one of the only museums in
the United States devoted to promoting human understanding through
art. International partnerships have been developed with the
Palace Museum, Beijing, the British Museum, and many others.
Its location, close to four major freeways makes the Bowers an
ideal destination for visitors to Southern California.
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Location:
Bowers Museum
2002 North Main
St.
Santa Ana, CA 92706
Summer Social Agenda:
1:30 pm
Gather at Main Lobby
1:45
pm
"Shanghai" Preview Presentation by
Marshall Toplansky
2:00 pm
Docent-led or self-guided tours of Gems and Treasures from Shanghai
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Hors D'oeuvres Social in the Huang
Courtyard
Summer Social Cost:
Members $ Free
Guest/s
$25/pp
Sponsored
by:
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth
AT&T
HFS Consultants
IBM |
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Three Special Exhibits
Bowers Museum presents “Treasures from Shanghai: 5000 Years of
Chinese Art and Culture," featuring objects from the Neolithic
period (circa 3000 B.C.) to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911 A.D.). This
incredible collection, on loan from the acclaimed Shanghai Museum,
portrays the evolution of Chinese technology, art and culture utilizing
rare examples of bronze vessels, oracle bones, polychrome potteries,
sculptures, porcelains, paintings, jade/bamboo carvings and lacquer
works. The exhibition is part of the grand opening of the new
Kennedy Wing of Bowers Museum and is one of the most important to
come from the Shanghai Museum. This is truly a world-class
exhibit, unique in that you can take it all in in less than an hour.
Our own ABL Technology member, Marshall Toplansky, CEO of Core
Strategies (who majored in Chinese and speaks fluent Mandarin) will
share his illuminating - and entertaining - overview of this exhibit at
1:45 pm.
Bowers newest exhibit, "Gems - Color of Light and Stone" is from
the legendary collection of Michael Scott (first president of Apple
Computer). Mr. Scott's priceless collection will feature a
variety of colored stones, carvings and sculptures including many "best
in the world" examples. The collection focuses on quality, but
also on variety. In “Colors of Light and Stone" one will see
most of the major gem species in every color and variety known. In
addition to very rare examples of little known color varieties it also
includes examples of cut “collector" stones — those too rare to be used
in the general jewelry trade. The Scott collection is considered
by many to be one of the finest private gem collections in the world
outside of royalty.
And, concluding its exhibit, "Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in
Ancient
Egypt -
Treasures from the
British
Museum"
has drawn upon this world-famous collection of mummies and funerary
objects to present the largest collection of mummies and coffins to ever
leave
the British
Museum. The
Egyptian mummies and coffins in this exhibition are of the highest
quality and have not been exhibited for many years. The exhibition
illustrates in depth the story of the fascinating Egyptian ritual of
preparing and sending the dead to the afterlife, complete with
furnishings created specifically for an individual's coffin, such as
spectacular gold jewelry and a wooden boat to transport the dead into
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