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~ In the State of Hawaii (17 total) ~

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HAWAII
Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum, PUUNENE, HI
Displays historical information about some of the pioneers who established Maui's modern sugar industry. Also includes artifacts, photos and documents (including labor contracts written in Hawaiian, Japanese and Chinese) showing the arrival of immigr [1533:-0.8-.05]-0
Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI
The State Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Pacific anthropology, botany, entomology and zoology. Includes on-line exhibits. [18:-0.0-.00]-0
Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Founded 1988, rotating exhibits are of last 50 years mostly. Member of Western Museum Group. Beautiful setting in hills overlooking Honolulu, excellent cafe. [648:-0.0-.00]-0
Dinosaurs! Honolulu Comminity Collage, Honolulu, HI
For the first time in Hawaii, there is a unique, free, permanent exhibit of dinosaur fossils available for public viewing. These "fossils" are replicas from the originals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. [1536:-0.8-.05]-0
Hawaii Museum of Flying, Honolulu, HI
Aviation museum showcasing Hawaii. Currently 5 aircraft and alot of flight related equipment (P3 Orion,F4N Phantom,A4E Skyhawks.located at Former NAS BARBERS PT. [1057:-0.0-.00]-0
Hilo Art Museum, Hilo, HI
The Hilo Art Museum was founded in April of 2007, and is the first general art museum on the big island of Hawaii. There is a teaching collection, consisting of a group of hand-painted, life size reproductions. There are also original works by such artists as Picasso, de Kooning, Wyland, Suzanne Dix and more. [1716:-0.6-.07]-0
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI
Founded early this century, ancient, modern, oriental. [649:-0.0-.00]-0
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
The Academy is Hawaii's only general art museum, and its holdings, almost equally divided between Western and Asian art, are encyclopedic in nature and scope. The Asian collection is one of the museum's principal strengths and is generally considered to be among the most important assemblages of its kind in American museums. [1535:-0.8-.05]-0
Honolulu Community College, , HI
Dinosaur exhibit. [114:-0.0-.00]-0
Lanai Culture & Heritage Center, Lanai City, HI
The Lanai Culture & Heritage Center seeks to inspire people to be informed, thoughtful and active stewards of their heritage by preserving, interpreting and celebrating Lanais Hawaiian heritage, and its ranching and plantation era histories. Hawaiian artifacts, historic photos and documents, and plantation family memorabilia. [1742:-1.1-.07]-0
Loren Adams Museum of Fine Art, Lahaina, HI
Collection of original oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, designs and objet d'art. [650:-0.0-.00]-0
Pacific Aviation Museum, 319 Lexington Blvd. Ford Island, HI
The Pacific Aviation Museum on Pearl Harbor's Ford Island is one of our country's leading aviation museums, and the only one dedicated to the defense of freedom in the Pacific. With actual aircraft from World War II, plus educational interpretat Visitor's experience at Hangar 37 houses the a visual history of WWII, including a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero, a Curtis P-40 Warhawk, a replica of Jimmy Doolittle,s North American B-25B Mitchell, among other WWII planes, bombs, and torpedoes. In a [1832:-0.1-.09]-0
Pacific Tsunami Museum, Hilo, HI [1437:-0.1-.05]-0
Polynesian Cultural Center, Laie, HI [194:-0.0-.00]-0
The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, is the only museum in the state of Hawai‘i devoted exclusively to contemporary art. TCM provides an accessible forum for provocative, dynamic forms of visual art, offering interaction with art and artists in a unique Isl [1534:-0.8-.05]-0
The Isaacs Art Center, Kamuela, HI
Features Hawaiian and Asian art from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Proceeds benefit the Hawaii Preparatory Academy Scholarship Fund. The historic building is on the State Register of Historic Places. Jean Charlot, Robert Lee Eskridge, Martha Greenwell, Hon Chew Hee, Herb Kane, Huc Luquiens, Emrich Nicholson, Ben Norris, Horatio Nelson Poole, Louis Pohl, Mariean Roden, Shirley Russell, Lloyd Sexton, , Jane Taylor, Madge Tennent, John Thomas, Margaret [1444:-0.3-.05]-0
USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park, Honolulu, HI
Dive into the intriguing history of the submarine known as the"Pearl Harbor Avenger," USS Bowfin (SS-287). [342:-0.0-.00]-0

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