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Bishop Museum Opening Kū a Lanakila! Expressions of Sovereignty in Early-Territorial Hawaiʻi, 1900-1920
Bishop Museum will open Kū a Lanakila! Expressions of Sovereignty in Early-Territorial Hawaiʻi, 1900-1920 on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, exploring Native Hawaiian activism in the Territory's first decades.
# Bishop Museum Opening Kū a Lanakila! Expressions of Sovereignty in Early-Territorial Hawaiʻi, 1900-1920
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi — Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, the State of Hawai'i Museum of Natural and Cultural History, will open a new exhibition in its J. M. Long Gallery on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024: Kū a Lanakila! Expressions of Sovereignty in Early-Territorial Hawaiʻi, 1900-1920 will be on view through Aug. 10, 2025.
Media Preview Opportunity
Bishop Museum invites members of the news media to a pre-opening, closed-door preview of Kū a Lanakila! Expressions of Sovereignty in Early-Territorial Hawaiʻi, 1900-1920, with access to the newly completed exhibition as well as interview opportunities with the exhibition curator and designer.
- Kū a Lanakila! Expressions of Sovereignty in Early-Territorial Hawaiʻi, 1900-1920 Media PreviewThursday, Oct. 3, 20241-4 p.m.Bishop Museum J. M. Long Gallery in the Hawaiian Hall Complex
Available for interviews:
- Sarah Kuaiwa, Ph.D., Bishop Museum curator for Hawaiʻi and Pacific cultural resources, exhibition curator
- Brad Evans, Bishop Museum director of exhibits, exhibition designer
Please RSVP with Lance Aquino via the contact information above.
Kū a Lanakila! Expressions of Sovereignty in Early-Territorial Hawaiʻi, 1900-1920 explores various strategies used to assert Native Hawaiian presence in the first few decades of the Territory of Hawaiʻi. This exhibition features Bishop Museum's collection items that demonstrate how Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian people) organized ceremony, competition, and political campaigns in the public sphere to demonstrate their activism and futurity in their changing homeland.
About Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, the State of Hawaiʻi Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Bishop Museum’s mission is to inspire our community and visitors through the exploration, celebration, and perpetuation of the extraordinary history, culture, and environment of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. The Museum was founded in 1889 by Charles Reed Bishop in memory of his wife Bernice Pauahi Bishop, a royal descendant of King Kamehameha I. Today, the Museum thrives as an educational center for the community and is widely regarded as the world’s premier institution for Hawaiian and Pacific content.
Bishop Museum’s vast collections of more than 25 million objects and specimens represent nine disciplines and include more than 22 million biological specimens, over 2 million cultural objects, 115,000 historical publications, and 1 million photographs, films, works of art, audio recordings, and manuscripts. These collections tell the stories of the cultures and biodiversity of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific as well as the proud legacy of scholarly research spanning 130 years.
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