Bishop Museum

The
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the
Hawaii 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, 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 and this abbreviation is used when citing housed
herbarium specimens.
The museum complex is home to the
Richard T. Mamiya Science Adventure Center.
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