Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 34, Number 2, 1 Pepeluali 2017 — Lecture series shines spot light on house museums [ARTICLE]

Lecture series shines spot light on house museums

Hawai'i i's home to a host of house museums and sites that help share conununity histories: 'Iolani Palaee, Washington Plaee, Hawaiian Mission Houses and Queen Enuna's Sunnner Palaee, to name a few. The Historic Hawai'i Foundation's annual historic preservation "Experts" lecture series for 2017 will focus on the role house museums play in offering a glimpse into the past through artifacts, documents, buildings and landscapes. The leetures will also explore innovation in interpretation and eonununieahon. "Turning an old house into a museum, collecting entrance fees to help pay for maintenance, and utilizing the facility for educational purposes onee served as the primary activities of historic preservation

advocates," Dr. William R. Chapman, director of the Historic Preservation Program at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and organizer of the series said in a release. "In time, other kinds of preservation efforts took precedence; federal and state laws, historic districts, and archaeology played an increasing role in practice. House museums seemed increasingly to play a secondary role. In recent years, however, a new generation of managers and curators have taken new and creative approaches to house museums, helping to reignite interest and search out new ways to interpret and present the past. This year's series will look at how some of Hawai'i's distinctive house museums have joined in this effort and eonhnue to advance preservation ideals in an increasingly challenging world," Chapman said. All lectures are free and open to the puhlie, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Cathedral of St. Andrew's Von Holt Room. The series' speakers and their topics in February and March are: > February 2: Dr. Thomas Woods, Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives, "Mission Houses: The hnprobable Partnership

Between American Protestant Missionaries and Hawaiian Ali'i" > February 9: Paige Donnelly, Associate Curator of Programs, Shangri La, A Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design, "Programming at Shangri La: New Approaches to Curation" > February 16: Mahealani Bernal, Docent Coordinator, Daughters of Hawai'i, "Queen Enuna's Sununer Palaee: New Directions in Curation and Interpretation" >February 23: RobertLiljestrand, Principal and Director, Liljestrand House, "The Liljestrand House: Preserving a Mid Twentieth-Century Masterpiece" > March 2: Jenny Eagle, Edueahon Director, and Jenny Leung, Collections Manager, Mānoa Heritage Center, "Master Campus Planning: Integrating Kuali'i and Mānoa Heritage Center"