Updated at 2:59 p.m., Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Bishop Museum, Hawaii Maritime Center free Jan. 25
Advertiser Staff
Bishop Museum and Hawai'i Maritime Center will offer free admission for Hawai'i residents with proof of residency and active and retired military and their families with ID on Jan. 25.Bishop Museum is offering the free admission program in celebration of the birthday of Bishop Museum founder Charles Reed Bishop (1822-1915), who memorialized his wife, Bernice Pauahi Bishop (1831-1884) with the opening of Bishop Museum in 1889 in he honor.
According to new director Tim Johns, the free admission policy on the birthdays of both Princess Bernice Pauahi and Charles Reed Bishop will be an annual event.
Currently on view at Bishop Museum is "Pauahi: A Legacy for Hawaii." Also on view in the Watumull Planetarium: NOAA's "Science on a Sphere." This exhibit projects satellite imagery on a six-foot sphere suspended from the ceiling. The sphere is surrounded by an interactive exhibition about global warming.
On view at the Hawai'i Maritime Center is "The Canoe: An Alaskan and Hawaiian Tradition." This exhibit, produced in cooperation with the Alaskan Native Heritage Center, presents a comparison and contrast of Hawaiian and Alaskan canoe voyaging traditions.
Both museums will be open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
For more information about Bishop Museum or the Hawai'i Maritime Center, call 847-3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org.
