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Family-owned Hawaiian food restaurant Highway Inn announces the opening of Tūtū’s Place by Highway Inn, a warm and welcoming café located at Bishop Museum in Kapālama.
Bishop Museum, the State of Hawai‘i Museum of Natural and Cultural History, invites middle schools across all the Hawaiian islands to help build its next exhibition. Opening in 2026 during spring break, the currently untitled show will include mosaics of school mascots or logos paid for and designed by the Museum, and assembled by students.
Bishop Museum, the State of Hawai‘i Museum of Natural and Cultural History, invites members of the news media to Hoʻi i ke Kai: Launch of the Aʻa, where Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole’s storied 40 ft. racing canoe will return to the ocean for the first time in more than a decade.
Bishop Museum, the State of Hawai‘i Museum of Natural and Cultural History, announces the rediscovery of two native Hawaiian land snails unseen for nearly a century. Museum researchers, along with partners from the Kauaʻi Forest Bird Recovery Project, found live specimens of Godwinia caperata (described in 1852) and Hiona exaequata (described in 1846) on Kauaʻi during recent biodiversity surveys (field programs where researchers monitor, measure, and document the variety of living organisms and their ecosystems).
Bishop Museum, the State of Hawai‘i Museum of Natural and Cultural History, invites the public to its next Museum After Hours event and meet two pioneers in ocean exploration and videography.
Bishop Museum, the State of Hawai‘i Museum of Natural and Cultural History, announces a new installation in the third floor Treasure Case of its historic Hawaiian Hall: A Woman of the World: Bernice Pauahi Bishop in Europe, 1875-1876, on view now through early Dec. 2025.
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