Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum

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Dates:
Active 1907
Active 1926
Americans
English

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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,[2] of which the entomological collection alone represents more than 13.5 million specimens, making it the third-largest insect collection in the United States.

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Subjects:

  • Botany

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Places:

  • HI, US
  • HI, US
  • Hawaii (as recorded)

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Institute of Museum and Library Services
National Endowment for the Humanities

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University of Virginia Library
National Archives and Records Administration