Bishop Museum

The Bishop Museum in Honolulu will launch Ka ˊUla Wena: Oceanic Red, an exhibition organized by Native Hawaiian curators in partnership with a community of Hawaiian and Pacific knowledge-holders. The exhibition will highlight rarely seen cultural objects from the museum collections and never-seen-in-Hawaii Oceanic objects on loan from around the world that all carry some aspect of the color red, and will coincide with the museum hosting the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture. The project team will engage ‘Ōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) speakers as content experts to prepare bilingual text panels and other educational materials, and will train educators, docents, and museum staff to lead the series of interactive and bilingual programs. As a result, the museum will honor Native Hawaiians and other People of the Pacific through an exhibition of their culture while growing visitors' understanding of the marriage between objects and stories, and how museums have a responsibility to ensure both of these aspects of culture are perpetuated.