Friends of Iolani Palace, Inc

Iolani Palace will launch the next stage of exhibit development as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the museum’s visitor experience. Based on completed interpretive and exhibit design plans, the new exhibit area will focus on ten themes for over 100,000 visitors per year, with an emphasis on multigenerational family groups and school classes. The museum will assemble a team of experts, knowledge-bearers, teachers, and other museum professionals to build the voice, text, and content for the exhibit panels and labels, which will reflect Hawaiian history, culture, and contemporary issues. The project team will also engage with local residents, college faculty and students, military service members and their families, and others to ensure that the process opens as many doors as possible to serving the Hawaiian community as well as building better understanding of Hawaiian culture for visitors.