Updated at 5:58 p.m., Monday, August 13, 2007
Last chance to see propaganda exhibit in Hilo
Advertiser Staff
HILO — "Wearing Propaganda: Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain and the United States, 1931-1945" leaves Hawai'i on Aug. 24, making this your last chance to see the exhibit.The Lyman Museum in Hilo is hosting "Wearing Propaganda," a display of civilian fashions designed to help promote wartime agendas in three countries.
Selected from private and public collections, many of the textiles, especially those from Japan, had never been seen by the public before their exhibition at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and in New York City.
The exhibit at the Smithsonian-affiliated Lyman was supported by The Hawaii Council for the Humanities and the We the People Special Initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Lyman Museum, 276 Haili St., Hilo, is open Monday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information call 808-935-5021 or visit www.lymanmuseum.org.
