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Ke Aliʻi Bernice Pauahi Paki Bishop's husband, Charles Reed Bishop, created the museum to preserve royal heirlooms passed down to him upon his wife's death. Charles Reed Bishop (1822–1915), a businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of the First Hawaiian Bank and Kamehameha Schools , built the museum in memory of his late wife, Princess ...
Bernice Pauahi Pākī Bishop KGCOK RoK (December 19, 1831 – October 16, 1884) was an aliʻi (noble) of the royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaii and a well known philanthropist. Ancestry, birth and early life
Bishop's will established a trust called the "Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate" that is Hawaiʻi's largest private landowner. [8] Originally established in 1887 as an all-boys school for native Hawaiian children, it shared its grounds with the Bishop Museum. After it moved to another location, the museum took over two school halls.
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He also was a founder of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, which he named after his late wife. [9] Bishop hired William Tufts Brigham, whom he had met on a scientific visit in 1864 with Horace Mann Jr., to be the museum's first director. [2] He also donated funds for buildings at the private Punahou School. Bishop was elected and served as ...
Hawaiian Kapas from the Collection in the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Ethnology and Natural History, 1893 (the book includes over 200 samples of tapa or kapa bark-cloth and only 3 copies were issued, now located at the Smithsonian Libraries; the British Museum library; and the Australian Museum library in Sydney) Hawaiian feather work, 1899
For the latter part of her life, Lahilahi Webb worked at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum as a guide and cultural ambassador to the exhibits. She joined the museum staff on August 11, 1919, and became a respected authority figure in the Hawaiian community because of her intimate knowledge and memories of the court of the monarchy.
The Hawai`i Maritime Center is now part of the Hawaii Pacific University's campus but was the principal maritime museum in the State of Hawai`i from 1988 until it closed in 2009. Located at Pier 7 of Honolulu Harbor east of Aloha Tower, the center was a campus of the Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.