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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In this groundbreaking work, Peter Mills reveals a wealth of insight into the emergence of the Hawaiian nation-state from sources mostly ignored by...
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The story of Kaluaikoolau (or Koolau) is one of Kauai's great legends. In 1892, after learning that he and his young son had contracted leprosy, Ko...
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This is a beautifully-crafted and illustrated book on Hawaiian women's fashions. It chronicles the history of Hawai'i and fashions worn by the firs...
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A Beautiful Picture Desk Calendar for 2023 featuring photos of Hawaiian Mission Houses taken by docent Barbara Fuller. This calendar is a great de...
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This woven throw showcases the natural beauty of Hawai'i. Each flower depicted is native and this will be a lovely addition to your home. This sof...
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"Be as Strong as the Land That Raised You" Handpicked Hawaiian teas cultivated from the lush tropical forests of Hawai'i Island bringing you the he...
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This Bamboo Cutlery Set features a unique pīkake (Hawaiian Flower) design on utensils (spoon, fork and knife only), as well as a reusable straw cle...
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Assorted Hawaiian shells with a charm on silver plated or gold plated wire bangle bracelet made by Karen Miyamoto. Select silver or gold upon check...
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Add a smoky Hawaiian flavor to your next dish with our Smoked Kiawe Salt! This smoked sea salt is one that is not to be missed! Once you taste our ...
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.
In this groundbreaking work, Peter Mills reveals a wealth of insight into the emergence of the Hawaiian nation-state from sources mostly ignored by...
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The story of Kaluaikoolau (or Koolau) is one of Kauai's great legends. In 1892, after learning that he and his young son had contracted leprosy, Ko...
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This is a beautifully-crafted and illustrated book on Hawaiian women's fashions. It chronicles the history of Hawai'i and fashions worn by the firs...
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David W. Forbes, Ralph Thomas Kam, Thomas A. Woods, Partners in Change: A Biographical Encyclopedia of American Protestant Missionaries in Hawaiʻi ...
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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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“I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideratio...
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Gavan Daws’ remarkable achievement is to free Hawaiian history from the dust of antiquity. Based on years of work in the documentary sources, Shoal...
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Anatomia is the only medical textbook written in the Hawaiian language. Gerrit P. Judd, for a time the only medical missionary in the Islands, wrot...
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Many people know about Hawai‘i’s volcanic crater, Diamond Head, but very few are aware of the crater’s colorful past. After Diamond Head burst from...
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