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.

• Polynesian Hall

• Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kāhili Room

• Richard T. Mamiya Science Adventure Center

• Hawai'i Sports Hall of Fame

• Hawaiian Hall (Under Renovation - Re-opening Mid-2009)
  

• Science On a Sphere
  at the Jhamandas Watumull Planetarium

More than 30,000 students from around Hawaii take part in Bishop Museum Education programs every year. We reach more than 14,000 students with our science and cultural outreach programs.

We have a number of resources available for teachers, students, and parents that are available here at the museum and also as outreach programs at schools and other venues.

• Ask a Scientist

• Science Division

• Cultural History

• Online Data

• Hawaii Biological Survey

• Pacific Biological Survey

• Conservation Services

• Pacific Science Association

• Mauna Kea Online Collections