Exhibits
Location: Bridge Gallery
“Trash,” by definition, indicates that something is worthless, without further utility or value. Accepting that label at face value gives us license to throw it... View "Kani Ka ‘Ōpala: Take a Sad Song & Make it Better" Exhibit
Location: Bridge Gallery
Japanese schools, community voices, and the politics of assimilation in Hawaiʻi Hawaiʻi has long been home to Kānaka Maoli and has also attracted people from a... View "Rise and Fall of Languages in “Paradise”" Exhibit
Location: Elevator Gallery
Pane mai Hawaiʻi moku o Keawe Kōkua na Hono aʻo Piʻilani Kākoʻo mai Kauaʻi o Mano Pau pū me ke one o Kākuhihewa From now through April, Hamilton Library... View "Activations of Ea" Exhibit
Location: Asia Collection
Tattoos, Resistance, and 1500s Philippine Colonial Maps Discover how Filipinos have long marked memory and resisted erasure through traditional tattoos, archival materials, and rare 1500s Philippine... View "Cartographies of Skin and Soil" Exhibit
Location: Elevator Gallery
Consider forests, rivers, paddy fields and fish ponds. These environments at once all hold multigenerational stories of care and conflict between people and place. They... View "Environmental Biographies of Southeast Asia: Collaborative Learning in the Field" Exhibit
Location: Asia Collection
In appreciation of the continued support of ICHIKAWA Monnosuke VIII, a well-known kabuki actor from Japan, a combination of exhibits has been launched in cooperation... View "Performing + Exploring Kabuki @UH Mānoa" Exhibit
Location: Bridge Gallery
"Shadows of the Future: The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Children" is a powerful reminder of the profound human cost of nuclear weapons. By focusing... View "Shadows of the Future: The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Children" Exhibit
Location: Asia Collection
Tōyama Kyūzō, the visionary responsible for sending the first group of Okinawans to Hawaiʻi, once said, "Our home is the five continents." Since the early... View "From Okinawa to Hawaiʻi and Beyond: A Worldwide Uchinanchu Diaspora" Exhibit
Location: Bridge Gallery
On January 8, 1900, twenty-six Okinawan men arrived in Honolulu and were recorded as the first Okinawan immigrants to Hawaii. In the following years, more... View "Miree Ya Kugani: A Bright Hopeful Future - Celebrating the 125th Anniversary of Okinawan Immigration to Hawaii" Exhibit
Location: Elevator Gallery
Sun Yat-sen (November 12, 1866 – March 12, 1925), a revolutionary leader and the founding father of modern China, had deep ties to Hawai‘i. Known... View "A Place for Sun: Sun Yat-sen's Journey and Legacy in Hawaiʻi" Exhibit
