Name: Kauai Museum
Schedule: Mon-Fri 9-4 Sat 10-4
Established: 1960
Address: 4428 Rice Street , Lihu'e, Hawaii 96766
Phone Number:
General 808-246-6931
Gift shop 808-246-2470
Fax Number: 808-245-6864
Email: museum@kauaimuseum.org
Director: Carol Lovell
Website: www.kauaimuseum.org
Focus: The Kaua`i Museum features the history, art and artifacts of Native Hawaiians and immigrants to Kaua`i, as well as showcasing contemporary Kaua`i artists. The mission of the Kaua`i Museum is to inspire and promote in the community an appreciation and respect for the indigenous and immigrant people of Kaua`i and Ni`ihau and their cultural heritages
Ages: All
Class Trip Programs: The Kaua`i Museum offers a hands-on program, which focuses on immigration to Hawaii during the twentieth century sugar boom, utilizing multiethnic family histories, museum visits, and imaginative storyboards that will help to elicit the student's understanding of cultural differences and similarities. Students will engage in gallery learning through museum visits and recreate "mini-museums" of their own in a classroom setting
Class Trip Pricing: No charge, call for reservations

General Public: $ 7 .00
Seniors: $5.00
Students: (13-1 7 ) $3.00
Children: (6-12) $1.00
Under 5: Free

Guided Public Tours*: $10 per person, Monday, Wednesday & Thursday, Reservations required.

*Free for Kaua`i Museum members, their guests are $3.50, and this includes an (optional) free tour.

Membership Categories:

Permanent collection includes l ibrary and archival materials, works of art, textiles, Hawaiian and Pacific Cultural materials, historic and natural history collections. In addition to being the home of Hawaiian culture and art, the Kaua`i Museum showcases an exhibit depicting life on sugar plantations, the workings of a mill, multicultural artifacts, costumes and photographs of the people who lived and worked on these plantations.

Main Gallery
Dark Clouds over Paradise : The Hawai'i Internee Story
May 11, 200 7 - October 31, 200 7

Little is known about the compelling story of the Hawai'i Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. Traveling exhibit produced by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i on O'ahu.

ARCHIPELAGO: Portraits of the World's Most Remote Island Sanctuary -November 12, 200 7 to May 9, 2008 in the Main Gallery. Legendary fine art photographers, award winning environmentalists and documentary film-makers David Liittschwager and Susan Middleton are back again with a new exhibit showcasing a breathtaking selection of the native floral and fauna of the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, both terrestrial and marine. The exhibition features 40 portraits of Pahahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument . The inaccessibility of these islands and the need to protect them means that few people will ever be able to visit in person. Home to nearly seventy percent of our nation's coral reefs, the Northwest-ern Hawaiian Islands host a remarkable ecosystem supporting a vast array of interdependent native plants and animals that have evolved over million of years, many existing nowhere else on the planet.

Senda Gallery
Sailing with Lata: the Original Polynesian Navigator
Aprial 2 7 , 200 7 - October 31, 200 7


A Polynesian story tells of Lata (Laka in Hawai'i, La'a in Tahiti, Rata in New Ze alan d ), the first person to build a canoe or vata. The Tuamokoan story of Lata is especially informative about how to build and how to sail an authentic vaka. The exhibit is made possible through the Vaka Taumoko Project of the Pacific Traditions Society.

Fine Bonsai-Kaua'i Style
Thursday - Saturday, December 6-8, 200 7 in the Senda Gallery and Courtyard. An exhibit of bonsai by Kauai Bonyu Kai, an organization founded in 2004 by seven Kaua'i hobbyists to improve their level of bonsai knowledge by working and learning together under guidance of Sensei Abraham Machado. The organization is honored to have the backing of Senior Sensei and Advisor Kenji Mayata of Japan who gave the organization its name. Guided tours of the exhibition will be provided throughout. On Saturday, December 8, the day's program will include a presentation of bonsai techniques by Sensei Machado which is bound to be entertaining and educational. Exhibition hours are 10am-4pm December 6, 10am- 7 pm December 7 , and 10am-4pm December 8

Mezzanine Gallery
Early this spring the Mezzanine Gallery was refurbished from top to bottom. One of the major improvements, window tinting, has resulted in a cooler and safer environment for the fine art exhibitions.

The Kaua'i Museum invites locals and visitors to learn about the Hawaiian art of lauhala weaving every third Saturday of each month; registration is required (245-6931 ext. 21). Margaret Lovett instructor. Fee $40
($35 members), 10:30am-3:30pm.
Bring lunch.

The first Saturday of every month is Ohana Day at the Museum, with free admission and special activities. Call for details.

Genealogy Workshop Featured At Kaua`i Museum's

September 200 7 Ohana Day

Malie Foundation, Na Kahu O Ka Mo'omheu (Keepers of Our Hawaiian Culture) with Nathan Kalama, presents the fourth and final of its genealogy workshops, as part of its Year of the Ohana. Participants from the first three workshops will be greeted, as they chant their genealogies before entering the museum. Other participants are encouraged to write and then chant their own genealogies in English, as they enter the Kaua`i Museum. Punana Leo O Kaua'i will sing in the courtyard, followed by music and a discussion on how drugs are affecting our island families. Of course, there will also be Hawaiian delicacies served such as kalo, kulolo, uala, and mamaki tea. This is another wonderful opportunity to participate in our living culture for visitors and residents alike. Ohana Days always feature free admission. For more info rmation please call the

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