Great Museum and great architects created this perfect building in 1889. - Sunday afternoon at the Bishop Museum. Open daily 9 to 5 . Beautiful old stone building. Perfectly restored building and beautiful and well designed antique koa wood interior. Great artifacts from the different nations of Polynesian that migrated to the Hawaiian Islands. Check for discount codes like BM2024 for a discount for admission. Pay parking lot.

Striking Building - This is a special museum if you're interested at all in Hawaiian history and culture. It's both a beautiful building and striking exhibits.

Beautiful place & friendly volunteers - Great place. Fabulous volunteers, displays and tour. 3 floors with ornate woodwork throughout. Also a science building with interactive displays kids would like and more hands on exhibits about light in another building. Volcano display beautiful. Happy face spider photo interesting. We actually took bus #2 from Waikiki beach area. Rode with locals and a great friendly bus driver! Only a few blocks walking when we got off on nice sidewalk to get there. There is also Kamehameha Shopping Center right near bus stop that has McDonalds, Longs, grocery store and multiple places to eat and lots of other options. We only went to McDonalds for breakfast.

Plan 1/2 day to get the full museum appreciation - Enjoyed all the exhibits and the grounds. We should have allowed more time on our travel plans for the Bishop Museum.

A must see - The museum is 3 floors of history of Hawaii and Polynesia. The building is beautiful. Spent $3 to go to the planetarium which was wonderful. The grounds are vast. The gift area is also large and offers all sorts of items. Went here on a rainy day and it was great!

Wonderful day - Very educational and interesting. Loved seeing so much of Hawaiian history. Well worth your time to visit.

Recommended - A first-class history museum in a gorgeous building. If you go on the right day you can add planetarium shows at $3 (and get a comfy chair for 20-40 minutes). The grounds are beautiful, and there's a natural history museum with some clever displays. We also got to see a lava demo, with a staffer pouring white-hot rock onto a surface and letting it cool until ... well, you'll have to go and find out.

Displays were very... - Displays were very informative, building was simply amazing. A real gem to visit on a iffy weather day.

Dark exhibits and right-brained content - I had looked forward to going to the premier museum of natural and cultural history in the Pacific. I enjoy museums about natural and cultural history. I found this museum to be "OK." It did give me an opportunity to learn a little bit more about Hawaiian and Pacific culture and history; but I found many of the exhibit cases in the main museum so dark that the exhibits were hard to see. They seemed to have a campaign going to replace or supplement the normal left-brained (informative but dry) explanatory content with innovative, poetic, and right-brained content intended (I think) to help one get an emotional feel (rather than a direct, logical explanation) of history and culture. I felt too left-brained to appreciate some of them. In the other buildings in the complex, many of the exhibits were closed or seemed under-maintained when I visited (Feb 2024). In the natural history section of the museum, I had hoped to see some dioramas with birds so that I could learn more about some of the birds I'd seen during my trip. Instead of dioramas they had a case with a dozen birds lying flat on the backs as they are often stored in natural history museums for researchers. Call me a boring traditionalist, but as I don't often see birds in the wild lying lifeless on their backs, I would have found a typical diorama more relatable.

Pricey - Tickets were pricier than expected, and you had to pay for parking on top of it. The museum had a lot of cool artifacts but I found it difficult to keep track of what I was looking at and reading and how it connected to the next thing. I think having clearly laid out and dedicated sections would help the knowledge flow. And a "family tree" for all the gods. The science center is definitely a cool place to let kids burn off some energy while learning some.