UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University museum of non-Western art and artifacts at UCLA, Los Angeles, US

The Fowler Museum at UCLA occupies a $22-million building designed by Arnold C. Savrann and John Carl Warnecke, opened on September 30, 1992, in the northern part of the Westwood campus next to Royce Hall and Glorya Kaufman Hall. It holds more than 120,000 art and ethnographic objects and 600,000 archaeological objects from Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Americas, with two permanent exhibitions and four other galleries for temporary shows. The UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is housed on the bottom floor.

The museum began in 1963 as a university initiative under Chancellor Franklin Murphy before moving into its own dedicated building in 1992. This relocation allowed the creation of a specialized exhibition space that could better present and organize its growing collections.

The Fowler's textile holdings exceed 15,000 pieces, tracing cloth history across five continents over two millennia. Its Mexican collection of more than 900 works, donated by the Daniel family in 1997, includes Trees of Life ceramics, Day of the Dead figurines and masks from Metepec, Oaxaca, Michoacan, Jalisco, Puebla and Guanajuato. In 2024 the museum returned seven Ashanti royal objects to Ghana, among them an elephant tail whisk, a chair of wood, leather and iron, two gold stool ornaments, a gold necklace and two bracelets.

The museum sits in the northern part of UCLA's Westwood campus, next to Royce Hall and Glorya Kaufman Hall, and is run by the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. Two permanent exhibitions are on view, with four other galleries given to temporary shows, often several at once. The UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology occupies the building's bottom floor.

In 2024 the Fowler returned seven royal artifacts to Ghana, including an elephant tail whisk, a wood, leather and iron chair, two gold stool ornaments, a gold necklace and two bracelets, handed back on the 150th anniversary of the 1874 capture of Kumasi, with full ownership and no conditions. That same year it repatriated 20 objects to the Waramungu community in Australia, and in 2026 it returned 766 items to the Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation.