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1 day ago · The Fowler Museum at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles basin and Southern Channel Islands).
The Fowler Museum at UCLA (commonly known as The Fowler, and formerly Museum of Cultural History and Fowler Museum of Cultural History) is a museum on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) which explores art and material culture primarily from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, past and present.
The museum maintains the largest representation of Los Angeles history focused on Gabrielino/Tongva and Chumash material culture in addition to Native American communities across the United States. The best representations of arts of the ancient Americas are from West Mexico, the Valley of Mexico, and Peru (with special strengths in the art of the Moche).
The Fowler Museum at UCLA explores global arts and cultures with an emphasis on Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Indigenous Americas—past and present. The Fowler enhances understanding and appreciation of the diverse peoples, cultures, and religions of the world through dynamic exhibitions , publications, and public programs, informed by interdisciplinary approaches and the perspectives of ...
Initially established in 1963 as the UCLA Museum of Cultural History, since 1990 it has been renamed the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. The collection has over 1,300 puppets representing the great traditions of Asia : 504 from China , 300 from Indonesia , 271 from India , 154 from Turkey , 63 from Thailand , 15 from Malaysia , 7 from Vietnam , 4 from Burma ( Myanmar ), 3 from Korea ...
The Fowler Museum at UCLA explores global arts and cultures with an emphasis on works from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas—past and present. The Fowler enhances understanding and appreciation of the diverse peoples, cultures, and religions of the world through dynamic exhibitions, publications, and public programs, informed by interdisciplinary approaches and the perspectives of ...
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Jul 1, 2013 · Fowler’s new Southern Comfort, a sweet whiskey, became a favorite of ladies during World War II and of rock singer Janis Joplin in the 1960s. Fowler moved his family to Los Angeles in 1944 and in 1968 established the Francis E. Fowler Jr. Foundation Museum in Westwood to house his collections; four years later he moved it to Beverly Hills.
