Company Profile
Bishop Museum
Company Overview
Today, Bishop Museum is the largest museum in the state and the premier natural and cultural history institution in the Pacific, recognized throughout the world for its cultural collections, research projects, consulting services and public educational programs. It also has one of the largest natural history specimen collections in the world. Serving and representing the interests of Native Hawaiians is a primary purpose of the Museum.
Company History
Bishop Museum was founded in 1889 by Charles Reed Bishop in honor of his late wife, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, the last descendant of the royal Kamehameha family. The Museum was established to house the extensive collection of Hawaiian objects and royal family heirlooms of the Princess, and has expanded to include millions of objects, documents and photographs about Hawai‘i and other Pacific island cultures.
Mr. Bishop built the magnificent Polynesian and Hawaiian Halls on the grounds of the original Kamehameha Schools for Boys. The Museum and School shared the Kapalama campus until 1940 when a new larger school complex was opened nearby on Kapalama Heights.
Benefits
- Paid Bereavement Leave
- Employer paid Life Insurance, AD&D and Long Term Care
- 13 Paid Holidays in Additional (2) Float Holiday
- Free Patron Level Membership (a $145 value)
- Free Parking
- 4 Guest Passes to the Museum per month
- Special discounts on Museum-sponsored events
- Use of the Library’s general collection of periodicals & books (materials must remain on campus)
- 20% discount in the Museum retail shop
- 10% discount in the Museum’s Café
- Bus Pass Discounts
- Employees of the Bishop Museum are eligible to join any of the following Federal Credit Unions: Aloha Pacific Federal Credit Union, Hawaii USA Federal Credit Union & Kamehameha Federal Credit Union