Exhibits
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September 14, 2026 – December 15, 2026
Location: Lobby Display
I ʻike ʻia, i lohe ʻia: Nā Moʻolelo o ke Kaiālulu Kuli o HawaiʻiTo Be Seen, To Be Heard: The Stories of Hawaiʻi’s Deaf Community The Deaf History Museum exhibit celebrates the rich…
September 1, 2026 – September 30, 2026
Location: Asia Collection
The exhibit, Heart of Okinawa – Sharing the Peace-Seeking Heart of Okinawa with the World: Remembering the Battle of Okinawa and Delivering the Message to Realize Peace, is presented by the…
August 24, 2026 – December 21, 2026
Location: Bridge Gallery
The Ocean that Remembers exhibition brings together the voices of 13 museum professionals from across Southeast Asia and the Pacific through cultural objects they selected to represent their communities, histories,…
August 24, 2026 – December 18, 2026
Location: Elevator Gallery
Field-Based Research on Land, Water, and Power Consider a terraced rice paddy on an Indonesian hillside, fed by mountain forests upstream, or an abandoned well along Morocco’s Rif coast. Each tells a connected biography of environmental change: not just a story of place, but a…
April 9, 2026 – August 14, 2026
Location: Elevator Gallery
A new educational exhibit at Hamilton Library celebrates the United Nations designation of 2026 as the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists. Designed by a multi-state collaboration funded through a…
April 6, 2026 – August 10, 2026
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 away. But where is away? We…
January 30, 2026 – March 31, 2026
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 wide range of ethnic and…
January 6, 2026 – April 3, 2026
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 will be hosting a set…
October 15, 2025 – February 28, 2026
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 maps—stories preserved in Hamilton Library’s…
August 25, 2025 – December 21, 2025
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 weave together tensions and possibilities…
