Bishop Museum Library & Archives is a source and center for Hawaiian and Pacific Island creativity and scholarship, recognized internationally for its rich, varied, and irreplaceable collections of published and primary source materials. Library & Archives staff care for and provide access to published works, manuscripts, photographs, artwork, oral histories, sound recordings, moving images, and maps. With collections that connect all Bishop Museum departments, the Library & Archives is also dedicated to the preservation of our institutional history.

Library & Archives blogs feature our collections and the work being done in our department. Here you can explore mele (Hawaiian poetic compositions) on our Welo Hou blog and follow the nūpepa (Hawaiian language newspapers) project on our He Aupuni Palapala blog.