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HONOLULU - BISHOP MUSEUM

Bishop Museum was founded in 1889 by Charles Reed Bishop in honor of his late wife, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, the last descendant of the royal Kamehameha family.

The Museum was established to house the extensive collection of Hawaiian artifacts and royal family heirlooms of the Princess, and has expanded to include millions of artifacts, documents and photographs about Hawai‘i and other Pacific island cultures.

Mr. Bishop built the magnificent Polynesian and Hawaiian Halls on the grounds of the original Kamehameha Schools for Boys. The Museum and School shared the Kapalama campus until 1940 when a new larger school complex was opened nearby on Kamehameha Heights.

Today, Bishop Museum is the largest museum in the state and the premier natural and cultural history institution in the Pacific, recognized throughout the world for its cultural collections, research projects, consulting services and public educational programs. It also has one of the largest natural history specimen collections in the world. Serving and representing the interests of Native Hawaiians is a primary purpose of the Museum.

The Museum also operates two other institutions: Hawai'i Maritime Center (located in Honolulu Harbor next to Aloha Tower Marketplace) and the Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden (on the island of Hawai'i ).

Over the past 112 years, the Museum has acquired 24.7 million items telling the full story of Hawai'i and the Pacific. These items include over 2.4 million cultural artifacts representing Native Hawaiian, Pacific Island and Hawai'i immigrant life, more than 115,000 historical publications, 1 million historical photographs, films, works of art, audio recordings and manuscripts.

After decades of field work we also care for Natural History collections of millions of specimens of plant and animal life, many of them extinct. The collections of Bishop Museum have been the source of hundreds of publications, many of them by Bishop Museum Press, and are continually being accessed by the public through Bishop Museum's Library and Archives.

Source: http://www.bishopmuseum.org/

 

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