Pre-sales are now open for a new Bishop Museum Press publication set to arrive in late March 2024: the 2024 reprinting of Nā Moʻolelo Lomilomi by Makana Risser Chai. Lomilomi is the traditional art...

Bishop Museum Press would like to mahalo the numerous heartfelt voices that reached us in August 2023 requesting the timely reprinting of Mokuʻula, Maui’s Sacred Island. Following the devastating w...

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A must-read for those interested in taro and its cultural history in American Samoa and Hawaiʻi.

Exciting savings between Nov. 15th and Dec. 15th, 2022

Moʻolelo, like the legend of Keaomelemele, encode observational knowledge and provide insight into how people of old viewed various meteorological and geological phenomena they saw.

In conjunction with Bishop Museum’s inaugural Kāhuli Festival this October, Bishop Museum Press features Kili and the Singing Tree Snails. 

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Kahuku Unit, has a new self-guided storybook trail based on the book Legend of the Gourd

Don't miss this once-a-year event and the chance to shop Bishop Museum Press in-person.