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Halloweekend: A Saturday of Play at Bishop Museum
# Halloweekend: A Saturday of Play at Bishop Museum
Bishop Museum event provides fun and safe Halloween activities for families
This Halloween, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum presents "Halloweekend: A Saturday of Play at Bishop Museum." With educational programs across the museum campus, a social media costume contest, and prizes, Halloweekend will provide a safe and fun place for families to celebrate Halloween festivities, Bishop Museum-style. Attendees can enjoy Halloweekend on Oct. 31, 2020 within the two timed admissions, from 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Passport Activity
Upon arrival, each keiki will receive a "passport" from the Hoʻokipa Desk (located outside of Shop Pacifica, where guests are admitted to the museum). Each activity they then participate in will earn them a stamp on the passport, and upon leaving guests can turn in their completed passport for a treat-filled goody bag.
Halloweekend will feature activities from Bishop Museum's recently launched Outdoor Museum concept. Keiki can participate in paʻani games, learn about native plants with a "GO and GROW!" kit, play a native bird matching game, and more. Each activity they participate in will earn a stamp on their passport. In addition, keiki can earn stamps by playing trivia using Bishop Museum's audio tours. In order to receive a stamp from these locations, guests will have to scan a QR code located near several nene (Hawaiian goose) bird cutouts scattered across the museum campus. After listening to a segment of the audio tour, keiki will answer a simple trivia question covered by that section of the audio tour to obtain a stamp on their passport.
Costume Contest Activity
Additionally, keiki who are Hawaiʻi residents aged 18 years or younger are invited to visit the Museum in costume and participate in its social media costume contest. To enter, guests will need to take a photo at the selfie station in front of the nene bird outside the Science Adventure Center, and post the image to their, or their parents' or guardians' public Instagram account, tag the Museum @BishopMuseum, and use the hashtag, #BishopMuseumHalloween. A winner from each timed period will receive a goody bag, and one grand prize winner for the best family or group costume will win a Bishop Museum family membership.
To qualify for the goody bags, participants must enter (post their photos) by Noon (for the first goody bag) or 4 p.m. (for the second goody bag). Face masks that cover both the nose and mouth must be integrated into the costumes, and entries will be judged on their creativity, originality, and any tie-in to Bishop Museum.
A mail-in form of entry will also be available. Full contest rules will be posted on the Bishop Museum website (BishopMuseum.org) the week of Halloween, and promoted on the Museum's social media channels (@BishopMuseum).
"Halloweekend: A Saturday of Play at Bishop Museum" will be a safe event for families, with all Bishop Museum safety protocols regarding mask-wearing and social distancing being observed, as well as COVID-19 mandates at state and county levels.
For more information visit, www.BishopMuseum.org.
Bishop Museum Admission, Parking & Hours
To control museum capacity, Bishop Museum offers 500 daily tickets. Tickets must be reserved in advance for one of the following two time periods:
- Morning, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
- Afternoon, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
If you currently hold a pre-purchased admission ticket that is still valid, those tickets will be honored on a space-available basis on the day of attendance.
The safety and health of our visitors and employees remains our highest priority, and new measures have been enacted to keep the Museum a safe place to visit. Please visit our Health & Safety page.
General Admission
Adults: $24.95 Seniors (65+): $21.95 Youth (4–17): $16.95 Children (3 and under): Free
Hawaiʻi Residents, Hawaiʻi College Students & Military with ID
Adults: $14.95 Seniors (65+): $12.95 Youth (4–17): $10.95 Children (3 and under): Free
Children age 16 and younger must be accompanied by an adult.
Parking
Free through the end of October 2020.
Hours
Open every day from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Closed on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day
Bishop Museum Café by Highway Inn offers a limited menu of Hawaiian plates, poke bowls, sandwiches, and snacks from 10:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m. daily. Museum members receive a 10% discount with their membership card.
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.
Bishop Museum proudly serves more than 200,000 visitors each year, including 20,000 children on school visits. Guests are encouraged to pre-plan their trip to #HawaiisMuseum with its free digital guide, available through Bloomberg Connects.
To learn more about the Museum’s research, collections, exhibits, and programs, visit BishopMuseum.org, follow @BishopMuseum on Facebook and Instagram, visit Bishop Museum’s YouTube channel, or call (808) 847-3511. Bishop Museum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Bishop Museum is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and welcomes applicants from the military, veterans, and those with disabilities. Learn about careers at Bishop Museum at BishopMuseum.org/Careers and on its LinkedIn page.
Bishop Museum Press is Hawaiʻi’s oldest book publisher and one of the first scholarly publishers in the Western Hemisphere, and has published over 1,200 titles and distributed over 1 million books in 72 countries worldwide. Bishop Museum hosts a restaurant and gift shop on campus, Tūtū’s Place by Highway Inn and Shop Pacifica by Nā Mea Hawaiʻi.