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Museums in Hawaiʻi

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Hawaiʻi Island

• Huliheʻe Palace (Kailua-Kona)Hawaiʻi Island · A royal summer home on Aliʻi Drive in Kailua-Kona, built in 1838 and later used by King Kalākaua, now a museum run by the Daughters of...
• ʻImiloa Astronomy Center (Hilo)Hawaiʻi Island · A science and culture center at UH Hilo that pairs Maunakea astronomy with Polynesian voyaging and Hawaiian star knowledge, plus Hawaiʻi...
• Kona Coffee Living History Farm (Captain Cook)Hawaiʻi Island · A restored 1920s Japanese coffee farm in South Kona where costumed interpreters show family life and coffee growing during the plantation...
• Lyman Museum and Mission House (Hilo)Hawaiʻi Island · Hilo's natural and cultural history museum, with a strong volcano and mineral collection, next to the 1839 Lyman Mission House, the...
• Pacific Tsunami Museum (Hilo)Hawaiʻi Island · Downtown Hilo museum telling the story of the 1946 and 1960 tsunamis that devastated the bayfront, with survivor accounts and tsunami...
• Smaller Hawaiʻi Island stops: Mokupāpapa, Paniolo Heritage, Honokaʻa, Laupāhoehoe TrainHawaiʻi Island · Smaller Hawaiʻi Island museums worth a stop, several of them free: Mokupāpapa Discovery Center in Hilo (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands ocean...

Kauaʻi

• Grove Farm Museum (Līhuʻe)Kauaʻi · A preserved sugar plantation homestead in Līhuʻe, with the Wilcox family home, gardens and workers' cottages, seen only on guided tours...
• Kauaʻi Museum (Līhuʻe)Kauaʻi · The main museum of Kauaʻi and Niʻihau history and culture, in downtown Līhuʻe, with hands-on cultural demonstrations and free guided tours...

Lānaʻi

• Lānaʻi Culture & Heritage Center (Lānaʻi City)Lānaʻi · Lānaʻi's community museum, in the old Dole administration building in Lānaʻi City, covering island life from before Western contact through...

Maui

• Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum (Puʻunēnē)Maui · Small museum beside the shuttered Puʻunēnē sugar mill in Central Maui telling the story of Hawaiʻi's sugar era and the plantation camps...
• Bailey House Museum (Hale Hōʻikeʻike), WailukuMaui · Maui's history museum, run by the Maui Historical Society in an 1830s mission house in Wailuku on the way to ʻĪao Valley. It holds Hawaiian...

Molokaʻi

• Molokaʻi Museum and Cultural Center (Kalaʻe)Molokaʻi · Molokaʻi's history museum, beside the restored R.W. Meyer Sugar Mill in upland Kalaʻe on the road to the Kalaupapa Lookout. Exhibits cover...

Oʻahu

• Bishop MuseumOʻahu · Hawaiʻi's largest museum of Hawaiian and Pacific culture and natural history, in Kalihi, Honolulu. Open daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except...
• ʻIolani PalaceOʻahu · The royal palace of Hawaiʻi's last monarchs, King Kalākaua and Queen Liliʻuokalani, in downtown Honolulu. Tours must be booked in advance...
• U.S. Army Museum of Hawaiʻi (Fort DeRussy, Waikīkī)Oʻahu · A free military history museum inside Battery Randolph, a 1911 coastal artillery bunker at Fort DeRussy in Waikīkī. It covers ancient...