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Bishop Museum Exhibition Schedule 2007-2009
The following exhibitions and events are scheduled for galleries at the Bishop Museum and Hawaii Maritime Center in Honolulu, and Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Gardens in Captain Cook, HI beginning October 2007 through December 2009. More detailed information will be available at www.bishopmuseum.org or in Ka’Elele, the journal of Bishop Museum.
This information is subject to change.
CONTINUING & PERMANENT EXHIBITIONSHAWAIIAN HALL RESTORATION PROJECT
Grand Opening Phase I: Summer 2009
Hawaiian Hall
For more than a century, some of the most precious and beloved treasures of the Hawaiian people have been housed in Hawaiian Hall. Completed in 1903, this building complex, with its volcanic stone exterior and extensive use of native koa, is considered a masterwork of the late Victorian museum design. Over time, however, the building’s historic interior had deteriorated, and its exhibits, which reflected a different style of museum technology and intellectual and interpretive approaches, had become outmoded.
In July 2006, Bishop Museum launched a $21 million restoration project aimed at restoring the Hall to its architectural glory, while at the same time installing elevators and air conditioning to ensure modern comforts. The project will also modernize the Hall’s methods of interpretation, bringing multiple voices and a Native Hawaiian perspective to bear on BishopMuseum’s treasures. Hawaiian Hall will convey the essential values, beliefs, complexity, and achievements of Hawaiian culture, and examine Hawaiian history objectively. New ways of exhibiting fragile objects will enhance their exquisite beauty and creativity revealing the skill of master craftsmanship in featherwork, tapa, fiberarts, woodwork, use of hardwood tools, and fine cordage unknown to other cultures that lacked metal tools.
The museum has brought a diverse group of organizations and individuals together to assist with the Hawaiian Hall Restoration effort. Hawaiian artisans, artists, scholars, and leaders have advised and given freely of their time. A new Hale pili is being built by a Hawaiian group following closely upon the nearly 100-year-old structure it is replacing. Project manager Fray Heath of Heath Construction Services, and Architect Glenn Mason of Mason Architects, Inc., bring their extensive experience in the renovation of historic structures in Hawai‘i, while world-renowned museum planning and design firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates guides the effort on the exhibits design.
Financial support has been provided by the J. M. Long, Vera M. Long, Geist, Cooke, Strong, and Atherton Foundations, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Kamehameha Schools, the State of Hawai‘i, Bank of Hawaii Foundation, A&B Foundation, Frear Eleemosynary Trust, Hawai‘i Community Foundation, as well as many private donors.
Once completed the Hawaiian Hall restoration project will give Hawai‘i something that has never existed before—access to a record number of the Museum’s deep and rich collections, together with native and objective western interpretation. Watch for the grand opening in Summer 2009.
NOAA’s SCIENCE ON A SPHERE (SOS)
Ongoing permanent exhibit
Cooke Rotunda, Jhamandas Watumull Planetarium
Bishop Museum’s newest permanent exhibit allows you to see our planet as the astronauts do—as a great blue marble in space. Created using technology and data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and funded through NOAA, this exhibit will change the way you see the world—literally. Science on a Sphere (SOS) achieves its extraordinary effects by projecting satellite imagery onto a 6-foot diameter sphere suspended from the ceiling. The results are startlingly realistic. While remaining motionless, the sphere appears to rotate slowly. Onto this virtual spinning sphere, a variety of views are projected throughout the day.
During the live demonstration Too Hot to Handle visitors can explore the causes and impacts of Global Warming. Science on a Sphere is used to run the earth forward to 2200 AD to show possible methods of global warming if we continue to emit greenhouse gases at our current levels. The show also talks about steps that we can take now to reduce future impacts. The live demonstration, The Science of Paradise uses the sphere to explore the reasons for Hawai‘i’s wonderful climate—from the islands’ tropical location to the reasons for the trade winds.
In between live programs, automated programs about the earth and planets in our solar system play continuously on the sphere. During these automated programs, visitors will see the cratered surface of Mars, a global view of the moon, where even the so-called “dark-side” is visible in rich detail, and the surface of Venus, with the planet’s dense clouds stripped away.
The global view from SOS neatly complements the more local perspective offered at the Richard T. Mamiya Science Adventure Center on the other side of the Museum’s campus.
GLOBAL WARMING
Ongoing and co-located with NOAA’s Science on a Sphere
Cooke Rotunda, Jhamandas Watumull Planetarium
A companion piece to our NOAA Science on a Sphere, this new interactive exhibit explores causes, effects, and possible solutions to global warming, one of the most important issues in science today. Compare your temperature to the planet’s temperature; discover the impact of global warming around the world, from receding glaciers in Alaska to “climate refugees” in Micronesia; learn about steps we can all take to help slow global warming.
RICHARD T. MAMIYA SCIENCE ADVENTURE CENTER (SAC)
Opened Nov. 19, 2005 – Ongoing permanent exhibit
In the Richard T. Mamiya Science Adventure Center (SAC) you can see the mechanics of tsunamis in the wave-making machine, or watch a display of volcanic activity at the model volcano and lava melting demonstrations.
Opened November 19, 2005, the SAC is a 16,500-square-foot facility with more than 30 custom-designed interactive exhibits and unique learning opportunities for children and adults. The dramatic centerpiece is a giant walk-through volcano that really “erupts.” This volcano is loosely modeled after Kïlauea’s active vent, Pu‘u Ö‘ö on the Big Island of Hawai‘i. There is also a 30,000-gallon Deep Ocean Tank with remotely operated vehicles you can pilot through a model of Hawai‘i’s youngest volcano, Lö‘ihi.
Other exhibits include the Hawaiian Origins Tunnel where you can learn about the natural and cultural origins of the islands through glowing artwork created by Hawai‘i’s schoolchildren.
AMY GREENWELL GARDEN FREE GARDEN TOUR
Second Saturday of every month; 10 a.m. – to 11:30 a.m.; Free ongoing event
Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden; Captain Cook, HI
Learn about various aspects of the AmyGreenwellEthnobotanicalGarden on the free monthly tour. For more information call (808) 323-3318. Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden is Bishop Museum’s native plant arboretum located in Captain Cook on Hawai‘i Island. The Garden is located twelve miles south of Kailua-Kona on Highway 11, just south of mile marker 110. The garden welcomes all visitors from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekdays. Admission to the garden is by donation, suggested at $4.
THE CANOE: AN ALASKAN AND HAWAIIAN TRADITION
Ongoing
Hawaii Maritime Center, Pier 7, Honolulu Harbor
Indigenous cultures around the world share many similar practices—among them canoeing. This exhibit, produced in cooperation with the Alaskan Native Heritage Center (Anchorage, Alaska) and North-Slope Borough (Barrow, Alaska), presents a comparison and contrast of Hawaiian and Alaskan canoe voyaging traditions. Among the featured items include Alaskan and Hawaiian canoe-building materials including adze, lashing materials, dye, seal skin, birch and cedar bark, kapa, coconut husk cordage, and basalt rock. This exhibit celebrates the January—March 2007 voyage of Höküle‘a to the Western Pacific and the island nations of Micronesia and Japan.
PAUAHI: A LEGACY FOR HAWAI’I
February 3, 2007 through spring, 2009
Castle Memorial Building, Second Floor
The founding of BishopMuseum was the result of an unconventional love story between a häole man and a Hawaiian princess. Pauahi: A Legacy for Hawai’i opened on February 3, 2007 on the second floor of Castle Memorial Building. The exhibition features personal legacies and bequests from the collection of Princess Bernice Pauahi Päkï Bishop, and includes treasures from others that may not have survived without the founding of Bishop Museum.
Charles Reed Bishop fell in love with Bernice Pauahi Päkï when she was only 16. In 1847, he met her for the first time and began calling on her nearly every night thereafter. They fell deeply in love. But, Pauahi’s parents heatedly opposed the match. They had already betrothed her as a child to, Lot, who later became Kamehameha V. She was in line to be Queen and yet, she rejected it all for love. Despite the objections by family and friends, they were married in a small private ceremony in 1850.
Their relationship stood the test of time and eventually won the respect and admiration of Pauahi’s parents and that of the greater Hawaiian community. They were married for nearly 35 years until Pauahi’s untimely death separated them. Bishop was at her side when she died October 16, 1884. He was devastated, mourning Pauahi’s loss deeply and profoundly. The founding of Bishop Museum in 1889 was an act of love by Charles Reed Bishop in honor of his beloved deceased wife. From 1898 to 1903, he built the Hawaiian Hall Complex to house Pauahi’s personal collections. It was Charles Reed Bishop’s intention that BishopMuseum study, preserve, and tell the stories of Hawai‘i and the Pacific, a mission that is still being carried into the next century.
Today its collections encompass more than 24 million catalogued objects and specimens from across the Pacific, placing Bishop Museum among the top five natural history museums in the United States and among the top ten in the world. For more than 100 years, Bishop Museum has served as the keeper of extraordinary Hawaiian cultural treasures, including those of Princess Pauahi, Princess Ruth Ke‘elikölani, and Queen Emma. Hawaiian Hall, currently undergoing a massive $20 million renovation, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Opened in February 2007, Pauahi: A Legacy for Hawai‘i is an ongoing exhibition of objects with several rotations planned while the Hawaiian Hall Complex undergoes renovation and reopens in December of 2008. Among the first treasures will be Princess Bernice Pauahi’s feather cape, a feather cloak of Kamehameha the Great, Princess Ruth’s buggy, an early holua sled associated with Lonoikamakahiki, journals and letters by the ali‘i, makaloa mats, ‘umeke (bowls), ipu (gourds), and the personal journals and objects of adornment from Princess Pauahi such as jewelry and hats. Weapons, poi pounders, kapa beaters and stamps will also be featured.
Among the rare objects in the first rotation will be an 19th century Makaloa mat woven with a tax protest made by an elderly Hawaiian woman named Kala‘i and intended for King Lunalilo. With the introduction of written language to the Islands, Hawaiians incorporated letters of the alphabet taught by the missionaries in tattooing and mat decorating. Short affectionate greetings were woven into mats, but lengthy messages, such as the one found in the “Protest Mat” were rare. Only one other mat with such a long text is thought to have existed, one proclaiming the Lord’s Prayer. Because of his unexpected death, the mat never made it into the hands of Lunalilo, but the subsequent king, Kaläkaua, received and displayed it. At least two newspapers printed Kala’i’s message in its entirety. This makaloa mat can be seen as an exquisite poetic expression of protest, one not easy to ignore.
Other highlights include ali‘i ornaments such as kähili (feathered standard bearers) and lei niho palaoa (necklaces of braided human hair holding precious ivory pendants).
The most famous fishhook in the Pacific, the Manaiakalani (Hook from the Heavens) will also be on display. The Manaiakalani was acquired from the Hawaiian National Museum in 1891.
This legendary hook is said to be the one demi-god Mäui used to lure the great ulua, Pïmoe, from the depths of the sea. For two days and nights the giant fish pulled on the line while Mäui’s brothers struggled to keep the canoe afloat and paddled for shore. They were careful not to look at Pïmoe, lest he turn himself into an island to avoid capture. But closing into shore, they turned and gazed at Pïmoe. As they did so, the line broke and the magical ulua became a solid island that would no longer move. Mäuifreed Manaiakalani and threw it into the sky, where it formed a constellation now known as Scorpio.
OCTOBER 2007
BRAIN: THE WORLD INSIDE YOUR HEAD
October 13, 2007 through January 20, 2008
Castle Memorial Building, First Floor
What did Abraham Lincoln, Thomas A. Edison and Albert Einstein have in common? Besides being great minds, they all suffered from disabling and debilitating brain disorders. Einstein and Edison were dyslexic, and Lincoln suffered from severe depression. Bishop Museum will present a multi-million dollar interactive exhibition that will help make brain-related disorders easier to understand. The groundbreaking traveling exhibition is made possible by Pfizer Inc and was produced by Evergreen Exhibitions, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In Honolulu, the exhibition is sponsored by Horizon Lines, Straub, and HMSA.
The hands-on exhibition provides a close-up look at the human body’s most essential and fascinating organ by exploring its development, geography, and function. Using virtual reality, video games, optical illusions and interactive displays, it shows how the brain functions and how, like other parts of the body, it can sometimes malfunction. Visitors will walk right through the electrical workings of a re-created functioning brain.
Visitors will also see real brains of humans and animals and experience amazing optical illusions. They’ll visit a 19th century lab to see how we first started learning about the brain. Interactive components include the ability to launch an electrical signal down a neuron tunnel, stimulate memories with smells, decipher optical illusions, conduct brain surgery, and play a game filled with facts to help boost the brain.
The most amazing and complex structure in the universe, the human brain contains as many neurons as there are stars in the Milky Way. They brain never turns off and by age 4 has grown to its full size. The brain feels no pain, and while it makes up only 2 percent of body weight, it uses 20 percent of the body’s fuel.
A study by Pfizer shows that nearly 40% of American adults said they have a family member with a brain-related disorder such as Alzheimers disease, Attention Deficit Disorder, dyslexia, migraines, depression and other anxiety disorders, or other brain diseases. Many families have difficulty discussing mental illness with their children-In the Pfizer study, fewer than 16% of parents said they have “very thoroughly discussed” mental illness with their children, while more than 64% had talked about underage alcohol use and 69% had talked about illegal drug use. Mental illness is often stigmatized and rarely is it understood that many mental illnesses have a physical cause and are often treatable.
“Understanding brain disorders is the key that unlocks a family’s ability to cope with mental illness,” said Mike Shanahan, Education Director. “This exhibition will provide both our residents and visitors with a first-hand opportunity to learn and understand more about the brain, one of science’s most exciting and challenging areas of research. We hope families will walk away with the message that treatments exist for people with brain-based conditions, and that people with mental illnesses and other brain-related conditions can live productive lives.”
BRAIN premiered at the Smithsonian’s Art and Industries Building in 2001, and has since traveled to 15 major science centers and natural history museums worldwide. Bishop Museum will be the only Hawaii venue to present BRAIN. The Smithsonian is also loaning two objects, a human skull (circa 1300) found in Cinco Cerros, Peru, with evidence of brain surgery; and an epoxy cast of a triceratops brain cavity made from a bisected fossil skull from an animal that lived around 70 million years ago. Both are from the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. and will be included in the Honolulu debut.
At the time of the Smithsonian opening, Pfizer also funded a new guide for parents through the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry titled, “Talking to Kids about Brain-related Conditions.” The guide is available for downloading free at www.pfizer.com/brain. (There is also a virtual tour of the exhibition at the web site.) Like the exhibition, the brochure explains brain-related conditions and helps parents and children talk about these important, but often sensitive issues. The guide also includes referral information for national mental health organizations.
Pfizer discovers, develops, manufactures and markets leading prescription medicines for humans and animals. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) co-partnered in the production and content collaboration. NIH is the principal biomedical and behavioral research agency of the United States Government and one of the world’s foremost medical research centers. Statistics say more than 44 million Americans have a mental disorder, ranging from anxiety to schizophrenia. Another 50 million (about the same number who suffer from high blood pressure) have neurological diseases including migraines and Alzheimers.
The exhibition is appropriate for parents and children of all ages. For more information about BRAIN, call (808) 847-3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org.
BISHOP MUSEUM FAMILY SUNDAY – Brain: The World Inside Your Head
October 14, 2007; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; $3 per person for Hawai‘i residents with ID and active/retired military and their families with military ID; Bishop Museum members free; regular admission for all others. Sponsored by Bank of Hawaii
Great Lawn and exhibit buildings
Bishop Museum’s Family Sundays provide a day of fun on the Great Lawn with special reduced rates of only $3 per person for Hawai‘i residents and Active/Retired Military and their families with ID. Entertainment, games and activities for the children, and food booths are featured. Enjoy gallery tours and access to daily programs in the Planetarium, Science on a Sphere, and the Richard T. Mamiya Science Adventure Center.
Mai Ka PIKO Mai: FESTIVAL OF INDIGENOUS ARTISTS
October 27, 2007 through April 6, 2008
Joseph M. Long Gallery
Bishop Museum will present Mai Ka PIKO Mai: Festival of Indigenous Artists October 26, 2007, through April 6, 2008, in the Joseph M. Long Gallery. The exhibition features contemporary art by indigenous artists of Hawai‘i, Polynesia, the Pacific Northwest, and the American Southwest.
In June 2007, over 100 international indigenous artists gathered in Kohala, Hawai‘i, to individually and collectively create works of art. Entitled PIKO, the gathering included artists from American Indian tribes from Alaska, the Yukon, the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and the American Southwest as well as native artists from Hawai‘i, Samoa, Guam, Micronesia, Society Islands, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Tonga, Australia, and the Cooks Islands.
From June 15th to the 23rd, The Hawai’i Preparatory Academy was the temporary home and work place to more than 100 indigenous artists, who assembled to make art together. They represented various media: painting, drawing, printmaking, wood carving, jewelry making, kapa making, feather work, stone carving, weaving, and mixed media. In the process, artists seized opportunities to dialogue about common issues, strengths, and challenges they all face as indigenous artists and as indigenous peoples. During the week-long event, participants expressed the importance of gatherings such as PIKO.
The products, which resulted from the PIKO event, reflected excellence in the application of art elements. They also reflected the achievements, hopes, dreams, and struggles of peoples connected by similar histories and culture.
The Keomailani Hanapi Foundation coordinated the gathering and with generous financial sponsorship from the Ford Foundation, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hawai’i County Product Enrichment Program (Hawai’i Tourism Authority), the Pu’a Foundation, Te Atinga and Squaxin Tribal council, with public showings of art work by the artists at the Isaacs Art Center, Keauhou Beach Hotel, and the East Hawai’i Cultural Center.
The exhibition represents the best works from these established and emerging artists as well as works created during the weeklong gathering. Coordinated by the Keomailani Hanapi Foundation, this exhibition addresses PIKO (navel or umbilical cord), in both the literal sense, as the source of the artwork, and in the figurative sense, as the source of inspiration and that which connects us to our ancestors, our landscape, and each other.
Marques Marzan is coordinating the Bishop Museum presentation. For more information about Mai Ka PIKO Mai, call (808) 847-3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org.
20th ANNUAL TREAT STREET
October 31, 2007; 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Great Lawn; Free
Bishop Museum, in partnership with University of Hawai‘i School of Architecture, presents its 20th annual Halloween event on Halloween night. This spook-tacular event, TREAT STREET, will return to the Great Lawn on Wednesday, October 31, 2007, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Don your Halloween costumes and bring the kids to trick-or-treat along a make-believe neighborhood street filled with colorful facades and freaky inhabitants. Admission is FREE!
There will be costume contests, coloring contests, a pie-eating contest, a cockroach contest, and a host of other keiki activities at this family-friendly and fun-for-all community event sponsored by the Bishop Museum to promote a safe and family-friendly Halloween. For more information about the 20th annual Treat Street, call (808) 847-3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org.
NOVEMBER 2007
AMY GREENWELL GARDEN ARBOR DAY PLANT GIVEAWAY
November 3; 8:30 a.m. – to 12 noon; Free
Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden; Captain Cook, HI
Free tree and plant giveaway! Sponsored by Ka Ulu Nani we give away three hundred native plants for home landscaping, many of which are rare and endangered. Each individual is limited to two trees and there will be many different species to select from such as ohia or the State flower, the mao hau hele. For more information call (808) 323-3318, or email agg@bishopmuseum.org. Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden is Bishop Museum’s native plant arboretum located in Captain Cook on Hawaii Island. The Garden is located twelve miles south of Kailua-Kona on Highway 11, just south of mile marker 110. The garden welcomes all visitors from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. Admission to the garden is by donation, suggested at $4.
THE HAWAI‘I HEALING GARDEN AT AMY GREENWELL GARDEN
November 3; 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Free
Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden; Captain Cook, HI
The Hawaii Health Guide presents a celebration of multi-cultural medicinal and nutritional plants of Hawaii. Polynesian, Hawaiian, Chinese, Filipino, cultural practitioners and ethnobotanists, will share their knowledge of Hawaii’s rich botanical treasures. The event features lectures, tours, workshops, adults and children’s programs, a Healing Arts Fair, and cultural entertainment. For more information call (808) 638-0888, or visit www.hawaiihealthguide.com. Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden is Bishop Museum’s native plant arboretum located in Captain Cook on Hawaii Island. The Garden is located twelve miles south of Kailua-Kona on Highway 11, just south of mile marker 110. The garden welcomes all visitors from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. Admission to the garden is by donation, suggested at $4.
DECEMBER 2007
AMY GREENWELL GARDEN FREE GARDEN TOUR
December 8; 10 to 11:30 a.m.; Free Event
Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden; Captain Cook, HI
The Mallow Family is the theme for this month’s open house tour. Malvaceae is a large and diverse family that includes the hibiscus. You will be surprised at the variety of plants that will display the recognizable hibiscus flower. For more information call (808) 323-3318, or email agg@bishopmuseum.org. Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden is Bishop Museum’s native plant arboretum located in Captain Cook on Hawaii Island. The Garden is located twelve miles south of Kailua-Kona on Highway 11, just south of mile marker 110. The garden welcomes all visitors from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. Admission to the garden is by donation, suggested at $4.
PRINCESS BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP’S BIRTHDAY
December 19
Bishop Museum staff members set aside a time to gather together to honor Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop’s legacy. Singing, scripture readings and storytelling are shared with a spirit of aloha and gratitude for all her contributions to the children of Hawai‘i.
JANUARY 2008
GRAND OPENING: NEW PICTURE GALLERY
January 19, 2008
Hawaiian Hall Complex
Bishop Museum’s premiere collection of art about Hawai‘i will finally get a new home when renovations for the new, as yet unnamed, Picture Gallery are complete in January 2008. For more than 70 years, the collection has been unseen and unknown to the greater Hawaii community because the Museum lacked appropriate gallery spaces for displaying the unrivaled collection.
Bishop Museum’s extraordinary collection of visual art of Hawai’i and the Pacific focuses on art from the 18th and early 19th centuries. This collection represents a remarkable window into the past—a visual documentation of Pacific cultures at the time of western contact and beyond. The earliest pieces are those of artists associated with voyaging expeditions of the 18th and 19th centuries, including John Webber—the artist for Captain Cook—and Louis Choris, the artist for the French explorer Louis Von Kotzebue.
The Museum’s art collection spans a broad array of cultural and natural history subjects, including significant images of early Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders and their lifestyles. Illustrations of flora and fauna of the Pacific region, incredible early views of volcanoes, and striking portraits of prominent individuals all provide us with important glimpses into the historical times this art represents.
Bishop Museum’s art collection includes approximately 250 oil paintings and 4,000 works of art on paper. Notable artists represented in the collection include: British painter George Carter (1737-1794); Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885); international portrait painter Enoch Wood Perry (1831-1915); maritime artist William A. Coulter (1849-1936), John Joseph Strong (1852-1899), and volcano artist David Howard Hitchcock (1861-1943), among many others.
Bishop Museum’s first building, part of today’s Hawaiian Hall complex, was constructed in 1889. It contained just three exhibit rooms, one of which was the Picture Gallery. At the public opening in 1891, the Picture Gallery presented portraits of Hawaiian monarchs, photographs documenting many Pacific cultures, and books. Later, display cases, koa furniture, and busts of Princess Pauahi and Charles Reed Bishop were added.
The Picture Gallery was closed in 1940, to be used first for storage and later for other types of exhibits. At the time of the closure, the art from the gallery was either relocated within the Museum or placed in storage. Since then, the majority of this collection has not been available for public viewing. And many additional pieces have been added to the Museum’s holdings. With the re-opening of the Picture Gallery in 2008, the Museum will present the first showing of selected pieces from this outstanding art collection in more than sixty years.
Oil paintings from the 18th and 19th century will form the foundation of the Picture Gallery’s new permanent displays. More delicate watercolors, such as the first views of the Hawaiian Islands created the artists that accompanied Captain James Cook, will be periodically rotated together with rare books and manuscripts from the Museum’s library and archives. The renewed Picture Gallery will be a place to experience the stories of Hawai‘i and the Pacific; to appreciate fine art; and to visually experience the Hawai‘i and the Pacific of earlier times.
For more information about Bishop Museum’s Picture Gallery, call (808) 847-3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org. For more information about Hawaiian Hall Renovation Project, call Amy Miller, Vice President for Institutional Advancement at (808) 848-4169.
FEBRUARY 2008
ANIMAL GROSSOLOGY
February 9 through April 20, 2008
February 9 through April 20, 2008
Castle Memorial Building, First Floor
Gross Out! Get the scoop on poop! When was the last time you were really en-GROSS-ed? Welcome to Animal Grossology, the interactive exhibition that takes a slightly different view of Fluffy, Fido, and the rest of the animal kingdom. Prepare to meet frogs that give birth by belching. You may think leeches are pretty disgusting, but did you know that they’re used after some surgeries to assist in the healing process? Play Tranfusion Confusion to discover which animals have what color blood. This is the slimiest, stinkiest, and downright yuckiest creatures on Earth—you’re gonna love it! Come learn why a cat’s anatomy is the reason why it spits up hairballs. Discover the mystery of the incredible tapeworm. Eeeuwwww… Animal Grossology is a sequel to the popular exhibit Grossology, which Bishop Museum presented in the summer of 2006. Animal Grossology is an exhibition created and produced by Advanced Exhibits, a division of Advanced Animations L.L.C. Books published by Price Stern Sloan, A member of Penguin (USA) Inc. This exhibit is sponsored by Horizon Lines.
MARY KAWENA PUKUI PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL
February 24, 2008; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
February 24, 2008; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$3 admission for Hawai‘i residents and active/retired military and their families with ID; Bishop Museum members free; regular admission for all others
Great Lawn
Native storytellers from Hawai‘i, Alaska, and Massachusetts will gather on the Great Lawn at Bishop Museum to “talk story” and join in a celebration of native cultures through the ancient art of storytelling and dance. The 8th annual Mary Kawena Pukui Performing Arts Festival will be held at Bishop Museum on Sunday, February 24, 2008 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $3 per person for Hawaii residents and military with ID. Members and children 3 and under are free. Regular admission for all others.
Among the participants in this year’s Mary Kawena Pukui Performing Arts Festival are performers from the Bishop Museum; the Peabody Essex Museum and New Bedford Whaling Museum of Massachusetts; the North Slope Borough in Barrow, Alaska, and the Alaska Heritage Center in Anchorage, Alaska; and known local storytellers from Hawai‘i.
The centerpiece of the festival is a collaborative performance piece entitled, “Keeping the Fire in Dark Moon Times,” Created in 2007 under the direction of Tau Dance Theatre of Honolulu, it is infused with the oral tradition, dance, and music of natives from Hawai‘i, Alaska, and Massachusetts. It honors ancestral stories and the diverse symbolism of the moon, its cycle, and the many meanings of harvest.
In the past, the storytellers have traveled to rural and Native Hawaiian charter schools on O‘ahu. This year, the plan is to take the storytellers to island of Hawai‘i as well. The group will also travel. The storytelling group will also travel to the new National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. and New York to share the stories of Hawai‘i, Alaska, and New England.
Says education Project Manager Noelle Kahanu, “What better way to learn about culture and its people than through their stories and songs? Thousands of Hawai‘i’s children have learned of the Raven and how he brought light to the Inupiat people, or stomped in time to a Wampanoag dance, or heard the rhythmic beat of Cape Verde drumming. It connects us all at a very fundamental level.”
At the Pukui Festival, there will be several stages featuring a variety of storytellers and programs for adults and children, hula h?lau, and musical performances. Food and native craft booths will also be among the attractions of the event.
The festival is held each year in honor of Mary Kawena Pukui, a revered Hawaiian scholar and linguist who knew the importance of storytelling to the host Hawaiian culture. Pukui published the first Native Hawaiian language dictionary and worked tirelessly to preserve and perpetuate Hawaiian traditions of hula and storytelling.
She was born in 1895 to a Hawaiian mother and a Caucasian father who was from Salem, Massachusetts. Until she was 6, she lived with her maternal grandmother who taught her the Hawaiian language and numerous chants, dances, and legends. As she grew into young adulthood, Pukui collected Hawaiian lore and legends that eventually became the background for more than 50 books and 150 songs she would later write.
Pukui worked at Bishop Museum for more than 50 years helping to preserve chant texts, oral histories and ethnographic data collected in her research and fieldwork. According to her adopted daughter, Patience Namakauahoaokawena Wiggin Bacon, Pukui was meticulous when she retold and recorded stories.
The Mary Kawena Pukui Performing Arts Festival provides an opportunity to perpetuate the storytelling traditions and to introduce new generations of Hawai‘i’s children to this important cultural legacy.
The festival is funded through a federally sponsored program, Education through Cultural and Historic Organizations (ECHO). The ECHO Act is a major, federally-funded educational and cultural enrichment initiative, established by Congress as part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. ECHO brings to culturally diverse audiences innovative programs collaboratively produced by six regional cultural entities: Alaska Native Heritage Center and North Slope Borough ECHO Project in Alaska; Bishop Museum in Hawai‘i; New Bedford ECHO Project and Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts, and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in Mississippi.
For more information about the Mary Kawena Pukui Performing Arts Festival or school outreach programs, call (808) 847-3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org.
MARCH 2008
BISHOP MUSEUM FAMILY SUNDAY – Animal Grossology
March 16, 2007; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; $3 per person for Hawai‘i residents with ID and active/retired military and their families with military ID; Bishop Museum members free; regular admission for all others. Sponsored by Bank of Hawaii
Great Lawn and exhibit buildings
Bishop Museum’s Family Sundays provide a day of fun on the Great Lawn with special reduced rates of only $3 per person for Hawai‘i residents and Active/Retired Military and their families with ID. Entertainment, games and activities for the children, and food booths are featured. Enjoy gallery tours and access to daily programs in the Planetarium, Science on a Sphere, and the Richard T. Mamiya Science Adventure Center.
APRIL 2008
4th ANNUAL MAD ABOUT SCIENCE DAY at Bishop Museum
April 5, 2008; Great Lawn; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
April 5, 2008; Great Lawn; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
$3 admission for Hawai‘i residents with ID and active/retired military and their families with military ID; Bishop Museum members free; regular admission for all others
Everyone is invited to be a scientist at the 4th annual Mad About Science Day. From earth sciences and medical sciences to out-of-this-world space sciences, kids and their parents will enjoy dozens of activities to explore and discover. Learn about archaeology, marine biology, entomology, and other scientific areas of research.
Mad About Science Day offers a chance to experience science Bishop Museum in a vast array of ways: from special tours of the Museum’s natural science collections to telescopes on the lawn for solar viewing during the day. Astronomy presentations will be offered throughout the day in the Watumull Planetarium and in the inflatable Starlab Planetarium. Ongoing demonstrations at NOAA’s Science on a Sphere will be featured and visitors are encouraged to explore the Museum’s permanent exhibit, Global Warming. Many other hands-on activities from the Bishop Museum’s own Holoholo science outreach program will be available for children to experience and explore.
Admission to Mad About Science Day is offered at a reduced rate of $3 per person for Hawai‘i residents and Military with ID; Regular admission applies to all others except Museum members and children 3 and under, which are free. Admission to the event includes access to all of Bishop Museum’s exhibit halls and galleries featuring all special exhibitions and the interactive Science Adventure Center.
Solar views on the Great Lawn with volunteers from the Institute of Astronomy will be offered from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., weather permitting. For more information about Mad About Science Day, call (808) 847-3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org.
3rd Annual Benefit Dinner - Picture Gallery and Art Restoration Fund
April 21, 2008; 5 to 8 p.m.; (808) 848-4157; or
Email shirley.tesoro@bishopmuseum.org for reservations and price information
Morton’s, The Steakhouse, Honolulu at Ala Moana Center
The 3rd Annual Benefit Dinner supporting Bishop Museum’s Picture Gallery and Art Restoration Fund will be held April 21, 2008, from 5:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. at Morton’s, The Steakhouse, Honolulu, located at Ala Moana Center. Premium tables and limited strolling buffet tickets are available.
For the third year in a row, Morton’s, the Steakhouse, Honolulu and Bishop Museum have teamed up to offer a fabulous evening at Morton’s, including a lavish, strolling buffet of Morton’s signature dishes, select wines and classic martinis. In addition, event goers will have the rare opportunity to view selected pieces from Bishop Museum’s extraordinary collection of oil paintings of Hawai‘i from the 19th and early 20th century
All funds will go to the Museum’s Art Restoration and Picture Gallery Fund to restore paintings in need of conservation work and prepare them for eventual display in the Museum’s Picture Gallery. The Picture Gallery recently opened in newly renovated spaces on the second floor of the Hawaiian Hall complex.
Event guests will also have the rare opportunity to bid on silent auction items featuring recently deaccessioned archival photographs and other special treasures from Bishop Museum’s Library and Archives. For reservations and more information please call (808) 848-4157. Premium tables and seating are also available.
MAMo AWARDS 2008: CELEBRATING OUR MASTERS
April 19 through July TBA, 2008
Joseph M. Long Gallery
Bishop Museum will begin the third annual Maoli Arts Month (MAMo) by honoring a select number of Native Hawaiian master artists with the exhibition, MAMo Awards 2008: Celebrating our Masters in the Joseph M. Long Gallery.
Coordinated by Bishop Museum’s Noelle Kahanu, MAMo Awards 2008: Celebrating our Masters honors six Hawaiian master artists who have tirelessly championed the cause of Native Hawaiian arts. The exhibition celebrates these artists through the presentation of artworks that attest to their lifetime achievements.
The art exhibition is part of MAMo, a month-long community-based event in May celebrating Native Hawaiian art, artists, and cultural practitioners with a host of activities and events at a variety of venues throughout Honolulu, including the Hawai‘i State Art Museum, Chinatown Arts District, The Arts and Marks Garage, as well as Bishop Museum.
MAMo organizers include Bishop Museum, PA‘I Foundation, Keomailanai Hanapi Foundation, Hale Naua III, Maoli Arts Alliance, as well as other Native Hawaiian artists and organizations, and the City and County of Honolulu, Mayor’s Office for Culture and the Arts.
MAY 2008
MAMo AWARDS 2008: CELEBRATING OUR MASTERS
Awards Ceremony open to the Public; May 1, 2008; 6 to 9 p.m.
Bishop Museum Grounds and Joseph M. Long Gallery
This reception honors the Maoli Arts Month Award-winning artists and is open free to the public. Come and meet the artists and view their exhibition of artworks in the Joseph M. Long Gallery.
The art exhibition is part of MAMo, a month-long community-based event in May celebrating Native Hawaiian art, artists, and cultural practitioners with a host of activities and events at a variety of venues throughout Honolulu, including the Hawai‘i State Art Museum, Chinatown Arts District, The Arts and Marks Garage, as well as Bishop Museum.
3rd Annual NATIVE HAWAIIAN ARTS MARKET AND FESTIVAL
May 3 & 4, 2008; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
$3 admission for Hawai‘i residents with ID and active/retired military and their families with military ID; Bishop Museum members free; regular admission for all others
Great Lawn; Bishop Museum
Bishop Museum will be the site of a two-day Native Hawaiian Arts Market and Festival, which will feature the stellar work of dozens of native artists, on May 3 and 4 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
MAMo organizers include Bishop Museum, PA‘I Foundation, Keomailanai Hanapi Foundation, Hale Naua III, Maoli Arts Alliance, as well as other Native Hawaiian artists and organizations, and the City and County of Honolulu, Mayor’s Office for Culture and the Arts.
The Native Hawaiian Arts Market is fashioned after the Heard Museum Indian Fair and Market, one of the most popular, successful, and longest running Native Indian arts events in America. A wide variety of quality arts and crafts created by Native Hawaiians will be available for sale in addition to Native Hawaiian performing arts and food booths featuring island favorites.
Among the market artists featured in previous years were master woodcarver Solomon Apio; fiber artists Maile Andrade; painters Ipo Nihipali, Joe Dowson, Kau‘i Chun, Sol Enos, Lufi Luteru, and Meala Bishop; feather artists Auntie Mary Lou Kekeuwa, Paulette Kahalepuna, JoAnne Kahanamoku Sterling, and Audrey Wagner; stonework artists Henry Hopfe and Kunane Wooton; and mixed media artists Imaikalani Kalahele, Bob Frietas, and Puni Kukahiko, and many, many others. Many of these same artists will participate again this year.
Demonstrations, workshops, and performances will take place throughout the day. Those interested in learning more about the Native Hawaiian Arts Market and Festival, should visit www.maoliartsmonth.org.
WHALES: WONDERS OF THE OCEAN
May 17, 2008 through September 21, 2008
Castle Memorial Building
Learn all about the gentle giants of the sea in this robotic traveling exhibition from WonderWorks. This exhibit tells their 54-million-year-old story, from early life on land to their journey back to the sea. Life-size robotic whales illustrate the major categories of whale origins, adaptions and behavior from feeding and reproduction to swimming, vocalization, respiration, and diving. The exhibit will feature full-sized robotic versions of a Baby Gray whale, a Humpback whale and an Orca, and animated heads of a Northern Right whale and a Sperm whale.
Whales are the descendants of land living mammals of the Artiodactyl order. Whales are the closest living relatives of hippos! They both evolved from a common ancestor at around 54 million years ago. Whales entered the water roughly 50 million years ago. These cetaceans are divided into two suborders: Baleen whales which have a sieve-like structure in the upperj aw made of keratin that is used to filter plankton; and toothed whales which have teeth and prey on fish and squid.
Like all mammals, whales breathe air into lungs, are warm-blooded, and feed their young milk from mammary glands, and have some hair. Whales breathe through blowholes located on the top of the head so the animal can remain submerged. Baleen whales have two blowholes, while toothed whales only have one. Whales have a unique respiratory system that lets them stay underwater for long periods of time without taking in oxygen. Sperm whales are known to stay underwater for up to two hours holding a single breath!
Whales live from 40 to 200 years, depending on their species, but it is rare to find one that lives over a century. Whale flukes are often used to identify whales and they communicate with each other using lyrical sounds. Being so large and powerful, whales sounds are extremely loud and can be heard for many miles.
The exhibit features several participatory stations where visitors can learn to identify whales the way scientists do; by their songs, their markings, their fins and tails, and their behavior. The eight large motorized creatures on exhibit operate on air pressure and were constructed in Los Angeles. Andrewsarchus will be the first motorized creature to greet visitors as they enter the show. This hairy, ugly, land-dwelling mammal with a snout is included in the exhibit because it belongs to a group of primitive carnivorous land mammals dating back 50 million years, which scientists believe may have been the predecessors of whales. The subsequent displays feature a tail-waving orca, a lanky basilosaurus, and the gray whale with a calf, among others. Inside each creature is an aluminum and steel robotic skeleton.
The movements of the robotic whales are controlled by a computer mounted in the creature’s base. The computer regulates the flow of compressed air through a series of air lines and valves to various cylinders. As air is forced through the system, it causes the piston inside each cylinder to move in and out. Large cylinders are used for tail and flipper movements, while small cylinders are used for the eye and mouth movements. A sound system, controlled by the same computer, is mounted in the base and is used to create life-like whale sounds. The skin is made from thick foam with a flexible elastimer coating that shows all the bumps and folds of the full-size clay sculpture. The whales’ creators have gone to great lengths to make the exhibit as authentic as possible, including putting lice and barnacles on some of the whales and even the sounds of the thumping whale heartbeat.
JUNE 2008
BISHOP MUSEUM FAMILY SUNDAY – Whales: Wonders of the Ocean
June 22, 2007; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; $3 per person for Hawai‘i residents with ID and active/retired military and their families with military ID; Bishop Museum members free; regular admission for all others. Sponsored by Bank of Hawaii
Great Lawn and exhibit buildings
Bishop Museum’s Family Sundays provide a day of fun on the Great Lawn with special reduced rates of only $3 per person for Hawai‘i residents and Active/Retired Military and their families with ID. Entertainment, games and activities for the children, and food booths are featured. Enjoy gallery tours and access to daily programs in the Planetarium, Science on a Sphere, and the Richard T. Mamiya Science Adventure Center.
MOONLIGHT MELE
June TBA, 2008; Admission TBA
Gates open at 5:30 p.m. for Bishop Museum members; 6 p.m. for general public
Concert begins at 7 p.m.
Great Lawn, Bishop Museum
Bishop Museum presents Moonlight Mele on the Great Lawn. The concert series is a staple of Honolulu’s summertime fun. Pack your low-height sand chairs or bring a blanket or a beach mat and enjoy Hawaiian music under the stars. Local eateries will provide a variety of food and beverages for purchase. (No coolers or outside food and beverages are allowed.) Only sand chairs under 12-inches high are allowed. Hand-held umbrellas are encouraged for the occasional mauka showers.
JULY 2008
MOONLIGHT MELE
July TBA, 2008; Admission TBA
Gates open at 5:30 p.m. for Bishop Museum members; 6 p.m. for general public
Concert begins at 7 p.m.
Great Lawn, Bishop Museum
Bishop Museum presents Moonlight Mele on the Great Lawn. The concert series is a staple of Honolulu’s summertime fun. Pack your low-height sand chairs or bring a blanket or a beach mat and enjoy Hawaiian music under the stars. Local eateries will provide a variety of food and beverages for purchase. (No coolers or outside food and beverages are allowed.) Only sand chairs under 12-inches high are allowed. Hand-held umbrellas are encouraged for the occasional mauka showers.
AUGUST 2008
MOONLIGHT MELE
August TBA, 2008; Admission TBA
Gates open at 5:30 p.m. for Bishop Museum members; 6 p.m. for general public
Concert begins at 7 p.m.
Great Lawn, Bishop Museum
Bishop Museum presents Moonlight Mele on the Great Lawn. The concert series is a staple of Honolulu’s summertime fun. Pack your low-height sand chairs or bring a blanket or a beach mat and enjoy Hawaiian music under the stars. Local eateries will provide a variety of food and beverages for purchase. (No coolers or outside food and beverages are allowed.) Only sand chairs under 12-inches high are allowed. Hand-held umbrellas are encouraged for the occasional mauka showers.
SEPTEMBER 2008
OCTOBER 2008
MEGALODON: LARGEST SHARK THAT EVER LIVED
Fall TBA, 2008 (This is tentative)
Castle Memorial Building
The Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, Florida, has created Megalodon: Largest Shark that Ever Lived, a new traveling exhibition that highlights the evolution, biology and misconceptions regarding giant prehistoric sharks. Related to the modern great white and mako sharks, the 60-foot-long Megalodon lived worldwide until it became extinct 2 million years ago. Megalodon’s beautiful fossil teeth are prized by collectors. This exhibit conveys current research findings of University of Florida paleontologists and showcases both fossil and modern shark specimens and full-scale models from several collections. Learn about the process of science and shark conservation. Walk through a sculpture of a 60-foot long Megalodon. Find out what they ate, its size and structure, how long it lived, who its neighbors were, how it evolved, and why it became extinct.
21ST ANNUAL TREAT STREET
October 31, 2007; 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Great Lawn; Free Admission
Bishop Museum, in partnership with University of Hawai‘i School of Architecture, presents its 21st annual Halloween event on Halloween night. This spook-tacular event, TREAT STREET, will return to the Great Lawn on October 31, 2008, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Don your Halloween costumes and bring the kids to trick-or-treat along a make-believe neighborhood street filled with colorful facades and freaky inhabitants. Admission is FREE!
There will be costume contests, coloring contests, a pie-eating contest, a cockroach contest, and a host of other keiki activities at this family-friendly and fun-for-all community event sponsored by the Bishop Museum to promote a safe and family-friendly Halloween. For more information about Treat Street, call (808) 847-3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org.
NOVEMBER 2008
DECEMBER 2008
JANUARY 2009
FEBRUARY 2009
ANIMATION
February 14 through May 10, 2009
Castle Memorial Building (This is tentative)
This exhibit is created by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in Portland, Oregon in collaboration with the Cartoon Network. Animation is everywhere! Every time we turn on a TV set, go to a movie, or surf the Internet, we see animated segments. But how does animation really work? Get ready to explore the science behind the art when you visit Animation!
From concept to finished product, visitors will learn all about the intricacies of the art of animations. From storyboarding to character design and drawing techniques, to movement, timing, filming, and sound—come to Animation and see how it all works. Larger than life graphics of popular Cartoon Network characters provide a colorful backdrop to the exhibit, which also explores the history of Animation and features a screening room and a cartoon museum.
To illustrate convincing movement, animators apply knowledge of the physics of motion, and the science of human perception. Animators plot out a character’s path of action on a grid before producing an animated sequence. The animator creates characters in scale with their environments through the use of basic geometry and spatial sense.