New Entomology Building At Bishop Museum

Abstract

A new building, largely occupied by the entomology department, has been completed at Bishop Museum, Honolulu. The new structure, Pauahi Hall, is named for Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian Princess and wife of Charles Reed Bishop, who founded the Museum as a memorial to his wife. The building has four floors, with an almost north-south alignment parallel to the front exhibition building and separated from it by the two previous administration and research buildings, Paki and Konia Halls (named for Bernice Pauahi's parents). It is connected to Paki (which houses primarily the library and administration) on all floors. The connecting link houses stairway, elevator, rest rooms, dark room, mailing room, janitor rooms, store-rooms and some space for collections. Thus the main part of the wing is almost entirely devoted to collections and research space. Three floors of the new building are devoted to entomology and the fourth floor houses the Museum herbarium and department of botany. Anthropology, vertebrate zoology and marine zoology are expanding in the space vacated by entomology and botany.