#Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, the State of Hawai‘i Museum of Natural and Cultural History, announces a new original exhibition coming to its Castle Memorial Building in May: “Ka ʻUla Wena: Oceanic Red.”

The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum presents “Fifty Years of Life: ʻUmeke from King Kalākaua’s Jubilee,” a third-floor installation in Hawaiian Hall offering insight into Kalākaua’s significant contributions to Hawaiian culture. The exhibit runs through June 2024.

The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum will receive $17.5 million in funding from the State of Hawaiʻi for the coming year, including $7.5 million for operations, and $10 million for capital improvement projects. The nonprofit reports the funding will be instrumental in supporting the Museum’s core function as the Hawaiʻi State Museum of Natural and Cultural History: […]

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs awarded the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum with a $49,999 grant for its “Extending Our Reach” project, which provides educational programs and meaningful experiences to a high percentage of Native Hawaiian students on neighboring islands.

“Mai Kinohi Mai: Surfing in Hawaiʻi,” a new exhibition at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, conveys surfing as a culture, an art, a sport, and a way of life.

Planning an post Valentine’s Day neighbor island adventure? Consider this… Visitors will investigate the marvels of natural engineering at Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum’s newest exhibit…

By Wendy Osher The state legislature is considering two resolutions that seek the creation of a task force to consider the merits of creating a monument to Queen Kaahumanu in Hana, Maui. Kaahumanu was born around 1770 to parents Keeaumoku and Namahana in a cave at Kauiki Hill in East Maui and was taken as […]