Bishop Museum | |
 The Hawaiian Hall at the Bishop Museum contains the world's largest collection of Polynesian artifacts. | |
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| Location | 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, Hawaii |
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| Coordinates | 21°20′00.0″N 157°52′14.2″W / 21.333333°N 157.870611°W |
| Built | 1889 |
| Architect | William F. Smith |
| Architectural style | Richardsonian Romanesque |
| Website | www |
| NRHP reference No. | 82002500[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 26, 1982 |
The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaiʻi State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu. Founded in 1889, it is the largest museum in Hawaiʻi and has the world's largest collection of Polynesian cultural artifacts and natural history specimens. Besides the comprehensive exhibits of Hawaiian cultural material, the museum's total holding of natural history specimens exceeds 24 million,[2] of which the entomological collection alone represents more than 13.5 million specimens (making it the third-largest insect collection in the United States). The Index Herbariorum code assigned to Herbarium Pacificum of this museum is BISH[3] and this abbreviation is used when citing housed herbarium specimens.
The museum complex is home to the Richard T. Mamiya Science Adventure Center.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ "Research and Collections – Bishop Museum". Bishop Museum. Archived from the original on June 2, 2004.
- ^ "Index Herbariorum". Steere Herbarium, New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved November 25, 2021.