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Once the summer palace for Queen Emma & family, this 19th-century home is now a museum with tours.
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- Address2913 Pali Hwy, Honolulu, HI 96817, USA, Honolulu
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- Phone(808) 595-3167
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I thoroughly enjoyed this museum! True Hawaiian culture to enjoy here. The house is beautiful and the guided tour information was extremely informative. Any additional questions no matter how trivial we're beautifully explained by the intelligent history expert who has big goals and a great Hawaiian history to share. Only took about an hour to walk through, although you can go much faster if you don't read the tour guide.
Interesting quick stop to check out along the way. I'll let the pictures do the talking here.
Beautiful preservation work & grounds with dedicated volunteer staff. Sadly, they made visitors leave at 12:30 which was disappointing considering the $16 admission. Also, that could have prevented visits all together for folks planning on their posted times.
Very interesting look into the Hawaiian past. You can wonder through the summer palace unescorted and read a provided brochure for an explanation of the furnishings and the history. Queen Emma was an amazing person. 💕
This place has a lot of history. It is jarringly small for a place called a palace. One “ballroom” the size of a largish mainland living room, four bedrooms/rooms from small to medium size, a central connecting chamber the size of a modest lavatory , and an entrance hall/sitting room the size of a medium foyer. Kitchens were separate structures in those days due to fire hazards apparently. There are many carefully preserved relics of the Hawaiian royalty. Or careful attempts at preservation I’d have to say. So much of that native culture valued artifacts incorporating feathers (because the meticulous methods of acquiring the materials and constructing these articles demonstrated immense skill and immense commitment of man-hours) While I believe all appropriate acts of preservation were taken, the results at times are still…sad. But feathers, even with the best preservation techniques, fade and disintegrate.