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Museum Galleries
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Lyman Museum
& Mission House
276 Haili Street
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
Phone 808.935.5021
Fax 808.969.7685
Hours: Monday - Saturday
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Mission House Tours
11:00 am and 2:00 pm
Closed on New Year's Day
Memorial Day
4th of July
Labor Day
Thanksgiving
Christmas Day
Admission
Kama`aina: $8 adults, $6 seniors, $3 children (ages 6-17), $17 family
Out-of-State: $10 adults, $8 seniors, $3 children, $21 family
University Students: $5
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Special Exhibits
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This special exhibit offers the chance to view rarely exhibited paintings, photographs, film, curiosities and oddities from the Lyman Museum collections in celebration of Hawaiian Volcano Observatory's 100th Anniversary.
Paintings by Nāwahī, Bailey, and two major Volcano School painters, Hitchcock and Furneaux, will be on display. Photographs ranging from the 1880s Mauna Loa eruption to present-day Kīlauea, as well as recently discovered and digitized film footage from Halema`uma`u (ca. 1930s), Puna (1955), Kīlauea Iki (1959), and Kapoho (1960) eruptions will debut.
Among the curiosities included in the exhibit are eruption specimens (tephra) and the sextant of Thomas Jaggar, founder and first director of the HVO. Excerpts from missionary Sarah Lyman’s Earthquake Journal, an important primary source for geologists as perhaps the earliest record of volcanic activity on Hawai`i Island, are also included.
 The Lyman Museum invites you to experience an artistic tradition unique to Hawai`i as it proudly presents an exhibition of featherwork and demonstrations by Lei Hulu of Hilo from May 1 through May 12, 2012.
For the past seven years, Aunty Doreen Henderson and her students, collectively known as Lei Hulu of Hilo, have delighted Lyman Museum visitors with a colorful display of feather masterpieces such as lei hulu (feather lei), kahili (royal feather standards), `uli`uli (feather gourds and rattles), `ahu`ula (feather capes), and mahiole (helmet). In celebration of Lei Day (May 1), the artists return with an exhibition complete with daily demonstrations by these cultural practitioners.
Lei Hulu of Hilo was founded by Hilo native, Doreen Henderson, who has dedicated her life to the preservation and perpetuation of Hawaiian featherwork and has been practicing the art for over 30 years. She studied under Master Kumu Mary Kahihilani Kovitch, a student of Aunty Mary Lou Kekuewa who is considered one of the foremost featherwork teachers in Hawai`i.
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East Hawai`i Garden Tours
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The Lyman Museum presents “The Garden as Healer,” on Saturday, May 19, the fourth excursion in a series of five East Hawai`i Garden Tours focused on the Big Island’s agricultural potential and sustainability. This day long tour begins at 8:30am and ends around 3pm.
Explore the theme of community health and vitality with a visit to Akiko's Buddhist Bed & Breakfast in Wailea. Tour her B&B and gardens, hear her philosophies, and, especially, learn about the Wailea/Hakalau community, which meets once a week to share, swap, and sell food, desserts, and plants. "We share food we grow, and it varies from garden to garden, household to household, with what is in season, etc.," says Akiko. "It gives our community members a chance to meet, to talk story, to know each other. It gives some of our community peoples a purpose to grow food beyond just their immediate household, and to share." We will have lunch there (included in tour price), prepared from local products by local cooks, and discuss Slow Food.
Among other stops, Master Gardener Barbara Fah will guide us around her Hi‘iaka's Healing Herb Garden, with its more than 100 species of Hawaiian plants, including endangered medicinal plants from Hawai‘i and other tropical areas. Val Kimbrough, president of the Big Island Beekeepers Association, will tell us about bees and his business exporting honey, coffee, and tea from Hawai‘i. We will also take part in a "smell test," designed for our tour participants by Hilo Pharmacist and Pharmacy Instructor Marq Sims.
The series of East Hawai`i Garden Tours are educational excursions led by Dr. Judith Kirkendall and Leslie Lang. Kirkendall’s field is the anthropology of food and Lang, author of Exploring Historic Hilo, specializes in the anthropology of Hawai`i and the Pacific. The next tour in the series is: “The Garden as Paradise” (June 16).
The tour provides transportation, free entry to featured activities, product sampling opportunities, and lunch. We suggest you wear comfortable shoes and bring an umbrella. Tickets include same-day admission to the Lyman Museum following the tour. Cost is $75 per tour ($65 for Museum members). To register, please call the Museum at 935-5021. The suggested sign up date is Wednesday, May 16.
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Programs and Events
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| Pola Hānau: Birth of a Tradition Monday, May 7, 7:00--8:30 p.m. When Malulani Konanui of Puna retired from the police force and took up his newfound passion for woodturning, he had no idea that by generating a contemporary tradition for Hawaiian families he would directly link them—and himself—to customs of old. Malu decided to create a special wooden bowl as a gift to mark the birth of his niece’s baby, realizing that the true value of the gift lay not only in its beauty but in the mana`o, or feeling, with which it was fashioned. Over time, more people learned about these pola hānau (birth bowls) and began to request them for their babies, so Malu has continued with his labor of love.
The pola hānau was conceived as a family heirloom, but took on added spiritual significance when Malu learned of Hawaiian customs related to birth and infancy that had been shared by his ancestors with early 20th-century anthropologists and historians. These traditions linked a family, their newborn’s piko (umbilical cord), and a wooden bowl used to safeguard the piko until it could be transported to the sacred hill of Pu`u Loa for a blessing, then deposited in a final resting place. Today pola hānau embody the aloha of a family for their keiki, and Malu completes each one within 24 hours of the baby’s birth “so that all these babies have aloha from the beginning.” This evening he tells us of the journey that connected his new tradition to the ancient customs, and to the Hawaiian concept of a newborn baby as a “bowl of light.” $3; Museum Members free. |
| The Big Island's Energy Costs, Agriculture, & Standard of Living Monday, May 14, 7:00--8:30 p.m. Sustainability is a topic that Big Island farmer Richard Ha has been studying for years, and tonight he will be sharing what he’s come to understand about the “post-peak oil” Big Island and how the future here is likely to unfold. Ha and his family are currently in the process of installing a hydroelectric energy system at their farm, Hamakua Springs Country Farms, which will help them stabilize costs. Energy costs and agriculture are inextricably tied to each other, and it's with that understanding that Ha approaches his family’s business. Ha is also a strong proponent for geothermal energy and is Chairman of the Board of Kū‘oko‘a, an organization formed to help public utility refinance its system in order to move the Island toward 100 percent renewable energy. $3; Museum members free. |
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Mission House
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The Lyman Museum began in the Lyman Mission House, originally built in 1839 for New England missionaries David and Sarah Lyman.
Nearly 100 eventful years later, in 1931, the museum was established by their descendants. Today the Mission House has been restored and is on the State and National Registers of Historic Places.
The sitting-room, where the Lyman family would gather in evenings for reading and prayer.
Attic of the Lyman Mission House, built in 1856. The original (1839) `ohia roof beams are evident along with the Douglas fir beams that changed the roof line for the 1856 zinc roof.
Visitors share their Lyman Museum stories on TripAdvisor.
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