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Posted at 12:38 p.m., Friday, January 25, 2008

Bishop Museum, Hawaii Maritime Center free today

Advertiser Staff

Bishop Museum and Hawai'i Maritime Center is offering free admission for Hawaii residents with proof of residency and active and retired military and their families with ID today.

The free admission program honors 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.

Free admission on the birthdays of both Princess Bernice Pauahi and Charles Reed Bishop will be an annual event.

Bishop Museum is now showing "Pauahi: A Legacy for Hawaii." Also on view in the Watumull Planetarium: NOAA's "Science on a Sphere."

Hawai'i Maritime Center is showing "The Canoe: An Alaskan and Hawaiian Tradition." The exhibit, produced in cooperation with the Alaskan Native Heritage Center, presents Hawaiian and Alaskan canoe voyaging traditions.

Both museums are open until 5 p.m.

For more information, call 847-3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org.