This list of museums in Hawaii contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Non-profit and university art galleries are also included. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (virtual museums) are not included.
Name | Location | Island | Subject | Summary |
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Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum | Kahului | Maui | Industry | Hawaiian sugar plantation history and heritage |
Anna Ranch | Kamuela | Big Island | Historic house | Historic ranch |
ARTS at Marks Garage | Honolulu | Oahu | Art | website |
Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka Space Center | North Kona | Big Island | Science | Located at Kona International Airport, space science and artifacts of astronaut Ellison Onizuka |
Bailey House Museum | Wailuku | Maui | Multiple | Historic 19th century house museum with Hawaiian history and art, collection of land snails |
Baldwin Home Museum | Lahaina | Maui | Historic house | website, operated by Lahaina Restoration Foundation, mid-19th century missionary home |
Bernice P. Bishop Museum | Honolulu | Oahu | Multiple | Art, Hawaiian history and culture, Pacific cultures, science, Hawaii Maritime Center |
Damien Museum | Honolulu | Oahu | Biographical | Life and works of Father Damien |
East Hawaii Cultural Center | Hilo | Big Island | Art | In historic building that served as District Courthouse and Police Station |
East-West Center Gallery | Honolulu | Oahu | Art | Performances and changing exhibits of traditional and contemporary arts of the Pacific region |
Gallery ‘Iolani | Kaneohe | Oahu | Art | website, part of Windward Community College |
Greenwell Store | South Kona | Big Island | Living | Operated by the Kona Historical Society, site of Henry Nicholas Greenwell (1826–1891) store |
Grove Farm | Lihuʻe | Kauaʻi | Historic house | 1860s sugar plantation |
Hale Pa’ahao | Lahaina | Maui | Prison | website, operated by Lahaina Restoration Foundation, former Lahaina Prison |
Hale Pa'i | Lahaina | Maui | Media | Operated by Lahaina Restoration Foundation, antique printing press equipment |
Hana Cultural Center & Museum | Hana | Maui | Open air | website, includes local history museum, historic courthouse, jail, and four authentic Hawaiian hale (houses) |
Hawaii Children's Discovery Center | Honolulu | Oahu | Children's | website |
Hawaii Keiki Museum | Kailua-Kona | Big Island | Children's Science | website |
Hawaii Nature Center | Iao Valley | Maui | Natural history | website, facility in Maui features museum exhibits; also an education center in Makiki Valley in Honolulu |
Hawaii Plantation Village | Waipahu | Oahu | Living | website, story of life on Hawaii's sugar plantations (c. 1900) |
Hawaii Science and Technology Museum | Hilo | Big Island | Science | website, mobile science museum |
Hawaii State Art Museum | Honolulu | Oahu | Art | Permanent and temporary exhibitions of Hawaiian art |
Honolulu Museum of Art | Honolulu | Oahu | Art | Also includes Spalding House with contemporary art |
Honolulu Police Department Law Enforcement Museum | Honolulu | Oahu | Law enforcement | website, evolution of law enforcement in Hawaii, operated by the Honolulu Police Department |
Hoʻopulapula Haraguchi Rice Mill | Hanalei | Kauaʻi | Mill | website |
Hui No`eau Visual Arts Center | Makawao | Maui | Art | website, includes fine art gallery |
Huliheʻe Palace | Kailua-Kona | Big Island | Historic house | Former vacation home of Hawaiian royalty |
ʻImiloa Astronomy Center | Hilo | Big Island | Astronomy | Hawaiian culture and history, astronomy (particularly at the Mauna Kea Observatories), and the overlap between the two |
Iolani Palace | Honolulu | Oahu | Historic house | Royal palace of King David Kalākaua and Queen Liliʻuokalani |
Isaacs Art Center | Waimea | Big Island | Art | Art museum of early and mid twentieth century Hawaii artists, also retail gallery, operated by the Hawaii Preparatory Academy |
Jaggar Museum | Kilauea | Big Island | Science | Geological museum dedicated to seismology & volcanology, at Kīlauea in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park |
Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii | Honolulu | Oahu | Ethnic | website, history, heritage and culture of the Japanese American experience in Hawaii |
John Young Museum of Art | Honolulu | Oahu | Art | Part of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Asian and tribal art |
Judiciary History Center | Honolulu | Oahu | Hawaii's legal history; located in Ali'iolani Hale | |
Kauaʻi Museum | Lihuʻe | Kauaʻi | Multiple | Includes art and artifacts of Native Hawaiians, local and natural history artifacts, and art exhibits |
Koa Art Gallery | Honolulu | Oahu | Art | website, part of Kapiolani Community College |
Koke’e Museum at Koke'e State Park | Kekaha | Kaua'i | Natural history | Nnatural and cultural history of Waimea Canyon State Park and Koke'e State Park |
Kona Coffee Living History Farm | South Kona | Big Island | Living | Operated by the Kona Historical Society, depicts coffee pioneer's story with daily lives of early Japanese immigrants during the period of 1920-1945 |
Lahaina Heritage Museum | Lahaina | Maui | Local history | website, operated by Lahaina Restoration Foundation |
Laupahoehoe Train Museum | Laupahoehoe | Big Island | Railroad | website |
Lucoral Museum | Honolulu | Oahu | Natural history | website, corals, pearls, gemstones and fossils from around the world |
Makawao History Museum | Makawao | Maui | Multiple | website, plantations, ranching, schools and churches, ethnic groups – the whole gamut of Makawao experience |
Lyman House Memorial Museum | Hilo | Big Island | Natural history | Features Hawaiian culture, shells and minerals |
Maui Arts & Cultural Center | Kahului | Maui | Art | website, includes fine art gallery |
Mission Houses Museum | Honolulu | Oahu | Historic house | Three houses that interpret the "missionary period" of Hawaiian history, 1820–1863 |
Mokupāpapa Discovery Center | Hilo | Big Island | Natural history | Exhibits on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, now a National Monument, including fish and coral life |
Nani Mau Gardens | Hilo | Big Island | Natural history | Botanical garden with museum about tropical plants and their role in Hawaiian culture |
Onizuka Center for International Astronomy | Saddle Road | Big Island | Astronomy | On the slopes of Mauna Kea, stargazing programs, information about the telescopes and astronomical work done there |
Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor | Ford Island, Hawaii | Oahu | Aviation | Located on Ford Island, includes historic aircraft, three historic hangars and an air traffic control tower |
Pacific Tsunami Museum | Hilo | Big Island | Science | History of the April 1, 1946 Pacific tsunami and the May 23, 1960 Chilean tsunami which affected Hilo |
Parker Ranch | Waimea | Big Island | Historic house | Working ranch with tours of two historic houses |
Polynesian Cultural Center | Lā'ie | Oahu | Ethnic | Polynesian-themed living museum with displays of culture and craft, operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park | Hōnaunau | Big Island | Archaeology | Park with complex of archeological sites and reconstructed temple and thatched structures |
Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site | Kohala | Big Island | Archaeology | Temple ruins and exhibits |
R. W. Meyer Sugar Mill Museum | Kalae | Molokai | Industry | information, information, also known as Molokai Museum and Cultural Center, historic sugar mill owned by Rudolph Wilhelm Meyer and museum |
Queen Emma Summer Palace | Honolulu | Oahu | Historic house | Victorian retreat for Queen Emma of Hawaii |
Queen's Medical Center Historical Room | Honolulu | Oahu | Medical | website, exhibits about the founding of the hospital and the early days of medicine in Hawaii |
Shangri La | Honolulu | Oahu | Art | Historic Doris Duke mansion with Islamic art, furnishings and decorative art; tours by reservation only |
Tropic Lightning Museum | Schofield Barracks | Oahu | Military | website, history of the 25th Infantry Division and Wheeler Army Airfield |
University of Hawaii Art Gallery | Honolulu | Oahu | Art | website |
U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii | Waikiki | Oahu | Military | Located at Fort DeRussy |
USS Arizona Memorial | Pearl Harbor | Oahu | Military | Memorial and museum about the sunken USS Arizona |
U.S.S. Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park | Pearl Harbor | Oahu | Maritime | World War II submarine and museum about submarines |
USS Missouri | Pearl Harbor | Oahu | Maritime | Museum battleship |
Waimea Sugar Mill Camp Museum | Waimea | Kauaʻi | Local history | information, history and culture of Hawaii's old sugar plantation communities and plantation tour |
Waiʻoli Mission House | Hanalei | Kauaʻi | Historic house | 1837 mission house |
Washington Place | Honolulu | Oahu | Historic house | House where Queen Liliʻuokalani was arrested during the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, later Executive Mansion for twelve governors of Hawaiʻi |
Whaler's Village Museum | Lahaina | Maui | Industry | website, whaling industry exhibits and whale information |
Wo Hing Museum | Lahaina | Maui | Ethnic | Operated by Lahaina Restoration Foundation, Chinese cultural history in Maui |
Honolulu is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is the unincorporated county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island of Oʻahu, and is the westernmost and southernmost major U.S. city. Honolulu is Hawaii's main gateway to the world. It is also a major hub for business, finance, hospitality, and military defense in both the state and Oceania. The city is characterized by a mix of various Asian, Western, and Pacific cultures, reflected in its diverse demography, cuisine, and traditions.
Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, also known as Honolulu International Airport, is the main and largest airport in Hawaii. The airport is named after Honolulu native and Medal of Honor recipient Daniel Inouye, who represented Hawaii in the United States Senate from 1963 until his death in 2012. The airport is in the Honolulu census-designated place 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Honolulu's central business district. The airport covers 4,220 acres, more than 1% of Oahu's land.
The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaiʻi State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu. Founded in 1889, it is the largest museum in Hawaiʻi and has the world's largest collection of Polynesian cultural artifacts and natural history specimens. Besides the comprehensive exhibits of Hawaiian cultural material, the museum's total holding of natural history specimens exceeds 24 million, of which the entomological collection alone represents more than 13.5 million specimens. The Index Herbariorum code assigned to Herbarium Pacificum of this museum is BISH and this abbreviation is used when citing housed herbarium specimens.
The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to the U.S. state of Hawaii:
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Herbert Kawainui Kāne, considered one of the principal figures in the renaissance of Hawaiian culture in the 1970s, was a celebrated artist-historian and author with a special interest in the seafaring traditions of the ancestral peoples of Hawaiʻi. Kāne played a key role in demonstrating that Hawaiian culture arose not from some accidental seeding of Polynesia, but that Hawaiʻi was reachable by voyaging canoes from Tahiti able to make the journey and return. This offered a far more complex notion of the cultures of the Pacific Islands than had previously been accepted. Furthermore, he created vivid imagery of Hawaiian culture prior to contact with Europeans, and especially the period of early European influence, that sparked appreciation of a nearly forgotten traditional life. He painted dramatic views of war, exemplified by The Battle at Nuʻuanu Pali, the potential of conflicts between cultures such as in Cook Entering Kealakekua Bay, where British ships are dwarfed and surrounded by Hawaiian canoes, as well as bucolic quotidian scenes and lush images of a robust ceremonial and spiritual life, that helped arouse a latent pride among Hawaiians during a time of general cultural awakening.
The Honolulu Museum of Art is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke. The museum has one of the largest single collections of Asian and Pan-Pacific art in the United States, and since its official opening on April 8, 1927, its collections have grown to more than 55,000 works of art.
David Howard Hitchcock was an American painter of the Volcano School, known for his depictions of Hawaii.
Madge Tennent was a naturalized American artist, born in England, raised in South Africa, and trained in France. She ranks among the most accomplished and globally renowned artists ever to have lived and worked in Hawaiʻi.
The Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House, formerly The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, was integrated into the Honolulu Museum of Art under this name. It was the only museum in the state of Hawaii devoted exclusively to contemporary art. The Contemporary Museum had two venues: in residential Honolulu at the historic Spalding House, and downtown Honolulu at First Hawaiian Center. All venues continue to be open to the public.
Satoru Abe is a Japanese American sculptor and painter.
The John Young Museum of Art is located on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Krauss Hall at 2500 Dole Street Honolulu, HI 96822.
Honolulu County, officially known as the City and County of Honolulu, is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The city-county includes both Urban Honolulu and the rest of the neighborhoods on the island of Oʻahu, as well as several minor outlying islands, including all of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands except Midway Atoll.
The Edgar and Lucy Henriques House at 20 Old Pali Place in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi was built in 1904 for the Henriques couple, who had married in 1898.
Spalding House, also known as the Cooke-Spalding House was an art museum and sculpture garden in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was called Nuumealani by Anna Rice Cooke, who commissioned it. The house and gardens constituted a 3+1⁄2-acre former art museum in the Makiki Heights district of Honolulu.
Jason Jun Teraoka is a figurative painter who was born in Kapaʻa, Hawaiʻi. He is a fourth-generation Japanese-American who lives and works in Honolulu, and is largely self-taught. In 2000, he received the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Arts Acquisition Award, and in 2001 he received the Reuben Tam Award for Painting from the Honolulu Museum of Art.
Trans Executive Airlines of Hawaii is an American airline headquartered at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, Hawaii, operating cargo flights under the name Transair and passenger air charter and tour flights under the name Transair Global. The airline was started in 1982 by Teimour Riahi. As of 2019, the airline operated a fleet of six Boeing 737-200 and four Short 360 aircraft.
Arthur Johnsen was an American artist. Born and raised on Oahu and living most of his post-university life on the Big Island of Hawaii, he is known for his impressionistic paintings and murals of Hawaiiana.
Solomon Enos is an accomplished Native Hawaiian artist, illustrator, and activist. Enos has had their work displayed at the National Museum of the American Indian and Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.