Exhibits
Location: Asia Collection
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 Philippine... View "Cartographies of Skin and Soil: Tattoos, Resistance, and 1500s Philippine Colonial Maps" 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
Location: Elevator Gallery
Keisha Tanaka: Kāhulimai There were once so many kāhuli snails that their voices were known to fill the forests with song. Keisha Tanaka's photography centers on... View "Group exhibition: Keisha Tanaka, Luana Low, and Nālamakūikapō Ahsing" Exhibit
Location: Hawaiian & Pacific Collection
Kumu Hula Piʻilaniwahine Smith shares a part of her intimate journey to kūkulu kuahu hula (establishing her hula altar) where she dedicated one year of... View "ʻIe Holo Ē" Exhibit
Location: Asia Collection
繪筆傳神：敦煌佛教壁畫之美 Situated at the crossroads of the ancient Silk Road, Dunhuang is renowned for its extraordinary Buddhist art that flourished from the 4th to the 14th... View "Through the Time and Spirit: The Early Buddhist Murals of Dunhuang" Exhibit
