Bernice P. Bishop Museum, USA (BISH)

The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaiʻi State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science located in the Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu. Founded in 1889, it is the largest museum in Hawai'i and is home to one of the world's largest collections of natural history material from the Pacific region, with approximately 21 million specimens. The main collections include Entomology, Malacology, Botany, Ichthyology, Vertebrate Zoology (Birds, Mammals, Amphibians and Reptiles) and Marine Invertebrates. Bishop Museum is in the process of dramatically improving its digital resources, and is actively involved in the development of biodiversity information standards and associated services (particularly the Global Names Architecture).

Contact: Barbara Kennedy, Collections Manager (bkennedy@bishopmuseum.org)

Home Page: https://www.bishopmuseum.org/botany/

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International)

Rights Holder: Bishop Museum

Access Rights: Public Domain

• 6,350 occurrence
• 0 georeferenced
• 1,259 (20%) identified to species
• 166 families
• 167 genera
• 201 species
• 201 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)