Archaeology
The cultural heritage of Hawai‘i and its ancestral cultures across the Pacific
- 3
- featured objects
- 2
- publications
Departments
Ten departments, one collection
Six natural-science collections, three cultural collections and a library. Each keeps its own specimens and objects, writes its own page and answers its own requests. This is all of them on one screen.
1,100,502 records are online, about 5% of the Museum's 22 million specimens. More are added every day.
What is online, by department
1,093,736 records. Each band is a department; click one to open it.
Botany
Herbarium Pacificum — the largest collection of Hawaiian and Pacific Island plants
- 545,392
- records online
- 47,230
- names
- 12,490
- type specimens
- 382,584
- photographed
Part of the collection is online, from 1754 on; more every day.
Entomology
The J. Linsley Gressitt Center — over 14.7 million specimens from the Pacific and Asia
- 64,870
- records online
- 13,628
- names
- 16,445
- type specimens
- 0
- photographed
0.4% of the department’s over 14.7 million specimens are online, from 1818 on.
Ethnology
Cultural treasures of Hawai‘i, Oceania, and Hawai‘i’s immigrant communities
- 6
- featured objects
- 6
- publications
Ichthyology
The best documented collection of Indo-Pacific reef fishes in the world
- 41,212
- records online
- 5,386
- names
- 3,064
- type specimens
- 0
- photographed
Part of the collection is online, from 1864 on; more every day.
Invertebrate Zoology
The only collection in the world devoted solely to marine invertebrates of the Pacific islands
- 48,107
- records online
- 5,267
- names
- 1,141
- type specimens
- 522
- photographed
Part of the collection is online, from 1967 on; more every day.
Library & Archives
Rare books, one million photographs, and the largest collection of Hawaiian-language newspapers
- 3
- publications
Malacology
Six million specimens — one of the world’s great mollusk collections
- 298,358
- records online
- 23,798
- names
- 3,472
- type specimens
- 262,222
- photographed
5% of the department’s about six million specimens are online, from 1808 on.
Pacific Center for Molecular Biodiversity
The primary cryorepository for Pacific-wide biodiversity
- 6
- publications
- 1
- people
Vertebrate Zoology
Birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and fossils of Hawai‘i and the Pacific Basin
- 95,797
- records online
- 3,848
- names
- 1,750
- type specimens
- 0
- photographed
Part of the collection is online, from 1851 on; more every day.
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