Museum tours
Make the most of your museum visit with toursof HoMA’s collection and special exhibitions.
Free to join with museum admission.
Tour times: Wednesday–Sunday: 11am and 2pm.
Tour listings at: myhoma.org/tours.

HoMA Nights
Every Friday, HoMA is open late with live
entertainment, beverages and bites, andart experiences for all ages. Learn more at:myhoma.org/homanights

Building and architecture

Honolulu Museum of Art Café

New York architect Bertram Goodhue designed the plans for

For more than fifty years, the HoMA Café has served
casual, contemporary cuisine and refreshments withisland-style hospitality, perfectly complementing
the museum experience. Open for lunch andSunday brunch, the Café is committed to operating
as sustainably as possible. Takeout is available.
Reservations: 808.532.8734.

a series of galleries that surround museum courtyards, taking
advantage of natural light and Hawai‘i’s temperate climate. The
building’s layout echoes Hawai‘i’s location in the middle of thePacific: the Joanna Lau Sullivan Chinese Courtyard, surroundedby the Asian art galleries, sits to the west of the Central Courtyard,
while the Mediterranean Courtyard, the center of the Europeanand American art collection, sits to the east. Building materials
include paving stones made from Chinese granite slabs (which inthe early 1800s served as ballast in ships transporting Hawaiian
sandalwood), Chinese green glazed tiles, Hawaiian lava rock fromKaimuki, and flagstones cut from aggregate stone from Moloka‘i.

Hours
Lunch and brunch:
Wednesday–Sunday:
11am–3pm

HoMA Nights
Friday:Bar service: 5–8:30pm
Bar bites: 5–7:30pm

After Goodhue’s death in 1924, the project was completed byHardie Phillip. In 2001, the museum expanded with the opening

Anna Rice Cooke

Refuel with artisanal coffee & tea beverages,
local craft beer, wine, and seasonal to-go menu
items in HoMA’s shaded Palm Courtyard.

missionary family on O‘ahu, and grew up in a home that
1880s to decorate her Victorian house that previously stoodon this property. Cooke became an astute and visionary art
connoisseur. When her art collection outgrew her home, she

Hours
Wednesday, Thursday,
Saturday & Sunday:
10am-5pm

Territory of Hawai‘i in 1922. Cooke and her husband donated their
Beretania Street land for the museum along with 500 works—
many of which are still highlights of the HoMA collection.

Friday: 10am–9pm

CLOSEDThe Honolulu Museum of Art
is closed Monday, Tuesday,
January 1, July 4,
Thanksgiving Day,
and Christmas Day.

Parking
Parking lot is located behind
Honolulu Museum of Art
School, 1111 Victoria Street.
There is an entrance on theleft-hand side of Beretania
Street. $5 for first 5 hours,$2 every additional 30 minutes

A non-circulating art research collection withmore than 40,000 art and culture books, periodicals,
and catalogs. The Reading Room is open to
the public with museum admission. Hours:
Thursday–Sunday: 10am–2pm.
Wednesdays by appointment.

900 S Beretania St808. 532.8700
honolulumuseum.org@honolulumuseumKīna‘u
HONOLULU
MUSEUM
OF ART

The HoMA Shop
Browse art books, contemporary jewelry,stationery, objects and textiles by local artisans,art supplies, and crafts and books for children.
Open during museum hours.

In partnership with the Shangri La Museum ofIslamic Art, Culture & Design, the HoMA facilitates
public tours to Shangri La, Doris Duke’s estate
owned and operated by the Doris Duke Foundation
for Islamic Art. Tour tickets include same-day
admission to HoMA. Tour times: Thursday–
Saturday: 9am, 11am, 1pm, 3pm. Reservations
required: myhoma.org/shangri-la.

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MUSEUM ENTRANCE

Shangri La

ThomasSquareVictoria

the collection, obtaining a charter for the museum from theFree for children
age 18 and under
Free for HoMA members
Free for Hawai‘i residents
the third Sundayof each monthFree July 31 for Hawai‘iresidents in honor of LāHo‘iho‘i Ea (Restoration Day)

Ward

reflect the Islands’ multicultural make-up. In 1920, she and herand teacher Catharine Cox began to catalogue and research

Explore your creative side with hands-on studioart classes for youth and adults at the recently
renovated Art School. Class listings andregistration at: myhoma.org/artclasses.

Wednesday, Thursday,
Saturday & Sunday:
10am–6pm

Friday: 10am–8pm

decided to create Hawai‘i’s first visual arts museum, which woulddaughter Alice Spalding, her daughter-in-law Dagmar Cooke,

Art School$25 adults$15 Hawai‘iresidents with ID

Pensacola

The Coffee Bar

appreciated the arts. She started collecting artworks in theOne of HoMA’s central gathering places, this280-seat art house theatre offers independent films,performances, and a variety of public programs.
Film and event listings and tickets at:myhoma.org/events.

Hours

Robert Allerton Art Libraryof the Henry R. Luce Pavilion Complex, designed by John Hara.

Museum founder Anna Rice Cooke was born into a prominent

Doris Duke Theatre

Admission

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Museum collection
An encyclopedic art museum, HoMA has a permanentcollection of more than 50,000 works of art spanning
5,000 years, from the Bronze Age to the present,from countries and cultures across the globe.
HoMA’s collection is especially strong in Chinese andJapanese paintings, Korean ceramics, Buddhist andShinto sculpture, South and Southeast Asian sculptureand decorative arts, and textiles from across Asia.
The museum’s European and American collectionof paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, textiles, andworks on paper range in date from the Renaissance tothe present. Highlights are major impressionist, postimpressionist and early modernist paintings, as wellas significant paintings and sculptures from the 20thcentury. HoMA traces the history of art in Hawai‘i witha gallery dedicated to Hawaiian traditional arts, art byHawai‘i artists, and art of Hawai‘i.

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Indian Art

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Asian Art

Indonesian Art

Contemporary Art

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Amedeo Modigliani

The Wheel,

Seated Nude, c. 1918

1973

26Claude Monet

Guanyin,Water Lilies, 1917/19c. 1025

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Modernism

Modernism

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WoodblockPrints

Temporary
Exhibitions

Vincent van Goghlate 18thWheat Field, 1888

century

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Thematic
Gallery

176

Chinese Art

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Temporary
Exhibitions

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Waterfall—No. III—The Lei Maker,‘Iao Valley, 1939

1901

COVER (Gallery 1): Female Folded-Arm Figurine. Cycladic, 2500–2400 BCE.
Marble with traces of polychrome. Purchase, Frank C. Atherton MemorialFund, 1976 (4386.1).

518c. European Art

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Nandi Head,

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Pan-Asian
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Chinese Art

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Temporary Exhibitions

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