The museum includes work from the Art in Public Places Program, dedicated to acquiring, preserving and displaying works of art that relate to the Hawaiian Islands or the culture of its people.
Besides model aircraft and exhibits that depict Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, coast through the skies, dogfight in the air and land on the deck of an aircraft carrier in the museum’s combat flight simulator.
The challenge at this museum has always been how to showcase its 26 million artifacts and objects.
Melanie Y. Ide, who took the helm of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in January 2018, wants to get the word out.
The village is home to 25 structures that depict what life was like for the ethnic groups that lived and worked on Hawai‘i’s plantations.
The mission houses were a site to create and share culture. Two centuries later, they still are.
The Honolulu Museum of Art is a treasure trove of Asian, European, Hawaiian, American and contemporary art.
Inside, treasures fill each room: a friendship bracelet containing a lock of English Queen Victoria’s hair; a fireman’s jacket belonging to Emma’s son, Prince Albert Edward; a cloak that survived a bombing in England during World War II
Best known as the site of the official end of World War II, the USS “Missouri” makes a perfect bookend to the USS “Arizona” Memorial just a few hundred yards off its bow.
‘Iolani Palace has shone as a beacon of innovation since 1882, when King Kalākaua first moved in.
Spread over nine sites across three states, the WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument honors the people, places and events of World War II in the Pacific theater.
Award-winning musicians perform “A Night of Sovereign Strings” at the Honolulu Museum of Art on Jan. 12 and 13.
The center brings the law to life in a courtroom restored to what it looked like in 1913, with an exhibit depicting the effects of martial law in the Islands.
You can check out local locomotives; watch model trains zip through an expansive miniature landscape; and buy train whistles or exclusive Tori Richard aloha shirts.
Think visiting a Honolulu museum is a spectator sport? That’s history.
While we’re all for ogling the artwork, style fans know that an expertly curated museum gift shop, showcasing talented local artist-designers, is its own kind of masterpiece.
Cultural expert and feather artist brings ancient art to life at the only royal residence in the U.S.
The story of how it traveled through the hands of as many as three queens has local museum experts hunting through history.
Bookmark this list and grab your state or military I.D. to take advantage of free admission days all across the island.
The Honolulu Museum of Art’s newest exhibit includes kingdom telephones, photographs, textiles, royal orders, jewelry from ali‘i collections and more.
Headliners include fashion designers, local and Maoli artists, live music, burlesque, art installations, a movie premiere and a Dia de los Muertos sugar mask pop-up.
The Honolulu Museum of Art’s Doris Duke Theatre hosts the Shaw Brothers Retrospective, a screening of 30 recently restored films, now through Nov. 2.
The Art World Escape app lets you select interactive, one-off experiences with local artists as they paint, dance, sculpt and create. In some, you’ll be able to take photos, take part in the creative process or lend your body as a canvas.
The local brewery is making a special beer for the museum’s new exhibit, “Ho‘oulu: The King Kalākaua Era.”
