This is the final weekend to see the Terracotta Warriors that have been standing guard in the Bowers Museum for the last six months.

For the first time in nearly a decade, an exhibit of the famed clay soldiers sculpted more than 2,000 years ago to guard Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s tomb is visiting the U.S., and it started with the Santa Ana museum. An exhibition of the historic pieces last visited Orange County in 2011.

Chinese terracotta warriors on display at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, CA, on Friday, May 23, 2025. The new exhibit, “World of the Terracotta Warriors: New Archaeological Discoveries in Shaanxi in the 21st Century!” explores China’s early history through recent archaeological finds from Shaanxi Province. The museum display goes from Shimao around 2300 BCE—among the earliest

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