The gift shop features a wide selection of unique merchandise, including books on Hawaiian language, history and culture, stationery, historic photographs, prints and posters, locally crafted jewelry, ceramic bowls, native wood products, and more! Money made by the gift shop directly supports Hawaiian Mission Houses and our local vendor partners.
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This necklace features sea glass found right here in Hawaii. You can make it any length by looping the two stones together and setting them wherev...
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Handcrafted with care, these A'ali'i + Paua Earrings are made from fallen trees and boast unique patterns. Each earring is expertly forged to ensur...
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This versatile bag can be used as a crossbody or remove the strap and use as a fold over clutch. Its 2 bags in 1! Day or Night this Bag can go wit...
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The Kukui nuts used to make these earrings were sourced from Kaneohe Oahu. They feature cut glass and bead embellishments and are hand-made in Haw...
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The Kukui nuts used to make these earrings were sourced from Kaneohe Oahu. This set includes a necklace and matching pair of earrings pictured. T...
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These beautiful handmade stockings are crafted from cork and vegan leather so that they look good and are sustainable! Perfect for a streamlined an...
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Experience the beauty and uniqueness of Hawaiian style with our handmade Hair Scrunchies. These scrunchies feature vibrant prints and are made by o...
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HMH Logo ABC quilt handcrafted by artist Barbara Rubio. This one of a kind alphabet quilt features English and ʻōlelo Hawai’i words with images. T...
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Celebrate the rich history of Kawaiahaʻo Church with our limited edition commemorative coin, only available in our gift shop. A special item for co...
View full detailsI appreciated being able to see these preserved building from the missionary era of Hawaiian history. It represents a fundamental change in culture, way of life, and ushering in the Hawaii we know today. It is good to look back at history honestly whether positive or negative. It is how things came to be. We learn from the past, what to emulate and what to change.
Cool place with lots of history about the missionaries and their life in Hawaii. They have a printing press which was great for the kids and adults to see in action.
The old missionary house is the original house from the 1800s.
Amazing artwork & historic dwellings to view. A cute gift shop to buy local art.
Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives (HMH), an active site for Hawaii’s history since 1820, is a National Historic Landmark (listed in 1965) and accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (last re-accredited in 2010). HMH graces a one-acre site in the Historic Capital district in downtown Honolulu. HMH preserves Hawai‘i’s oldest Western-style house, the 1821 Mission House, as well as the 1831 Chamberlain House, the 1841 Bedroom Annex, a cemetery, a collections storage vault, a gift shop, and multi-purpose space. The library, which holds both English and Hawaiian archival material, welcomes researchers on site as well as from around the globe through the digital collection. A coral-and-grass performance arena was added in 2011, hosting theater and mele (music) performances throughout the year, and a reconstructed hale pili, built using cultural practitioner leadership and designed with sources from journals in the HMH archives, was added in 2021. HMH offers school field trips, tours, historical theater performances and has been awarded over 15 Po‘okela Awards for Excellence in theatrical performance, writing, and direction. The HMH historical archive holds over 80,000 digital pieces and is home to one of the largest collections of Hawaiian language books in the world.
Few people today know that in the nineteenth century, Hawai‘i was not only an internationally recognized independent nation but played a crucial ro...
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More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples who built lives...
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More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples who built lives...
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Hawaii Mission Houses announces the publication of two new books which add to the scholarship and understanding of the American Protestant missiona...
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There is no place like Hawai'i at Christmas! Island-style Christmastime joy, community events, music , flavors, and lights parade through the page...
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Everything Ancient Was Once New, Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ancestr...
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From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill by C. Allen Jones and Robert V. Osgood focuses on the technological and scientific advances that allowed Hawa...
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For many years, Hawaiian Dictionary has been the definitive and authoritative work on the Hawaiian language. Now this indispensable reference volum...
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Queen Lili‘uokalani, born as Lydia Lili‘u Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamaka‘eha, was the last reigning monarch of the kingdom of Hawai‘i. She ascended t...
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