Exhibits
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…
August 18, 2025 – September 30, 2025
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 with Dept. of Theatre and…
August 1, 2025 – October 31, 2025
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 on the experiences of children…
February 10, 2025 – June 30, 2025
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 20th century, with Hawaiʻi being the first…
February 7, 2025 – June 30, 2025
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 Okinawan Issei (first-generation) immigrated to Hawaii to…
