The Project Banaba exhibition features the work of Banaban scholar and artist Katerina Teaiwa, who creates a contemporary art installation by combining her family’s personal archive with international historical archives to shed light on the little-known history of Banaba and its impact across the Moana, or Pacific. Banabans viewed their ancestral island, the rock of Banaba, as “te aba”: the body of the land, and the body of the people. Project Banaba thus explores how both lands and lives were transformed by powerful, imperial agricultural interests.

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, the State of Hawai‘i Museum of Natural and Cultural History, announces a new installation coming to historic Hawaiian Hall in its third floor Treasure Case: Faith and Philanthropy: Queen Emma Kaleleonālani’s Visit to England, 1865-1866 (“Faith and Philanthropy”), opening Friday, July 19, 2024.

Ka ‘Ula Wena: Oceanic Red, to be held May 25, 2024–Jan. 19, 2025, is an original Bishop Museum exhibition that explores manifestations of red in the landscapes, memory, and created expressions of Oceania. Ka ʻUla Wena originates in Hawaiʻi, but we reach out to embrace our cousins across the vast Moananuiākea.

Ka ‘Ula Wena: Oceanic Red, to be held May 25, 2024–Jan. 19, 2025, is an original Bishop Museum exhibition that explores manifestations of red in the landscapes, memory, and created expressions of Oceania. Ka ʻUla Wena originates in Hawaiʻi, but we reach out to embrace our cousins across the vast Moananuiākea.

Held the Saturday before Earth Day, the Festival brings together Museum scientists, educators, cultural practitioners, and more than 30 community partners to highlight the ongoing work needed to protect our islands’ biodiversity and build a sustainable future for Hawaiʻi.

ExCORE at Bishop Museum leverages cutting-edge technology and pioneering research to explore, document, and conserve the biodiversity of coral reef ecosystems, advancing global understanding and protection of these vital marine habitats.