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August Obama Month Celebration

Community Block Party - August 4, 2022 at 5pm - 7pm HST

Event taking place at Obama Hawaiian Africana Museum - 1311Kapiolani Blvd (street level)

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Honolulu Hale Exhibit

Barack Obama exhibit on display at Honolulu Hale

(due to COVID-19 restrictions 2022 exhibit will be virtual)

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West Loch Internees Life & Memory Ceremonies

West Loch Disaster Remembrance - May 20, 2022 at 2pm

The Obama Hawaiian Africana Museum in collaboration with Hawaii Joint Military Forces invite the public to join us in remembering forgotten heroes who died seventy-eight years ago in the West Loch Disaster at Pearl Harbor, two years after December 7, 1941, bombing.

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Anthony D. Allen Wayside Signage Receives Official Recognition From Governor & First Lady

Special message from Governor of Hawai'i in Recognition of Designation Ceremony for Anthony D. Allen Wayside Signage - signed by David Y. Ige Governor, State of Hawai'i & Dawn Amano-Ige First Lady, State of Hawai'i

KHON2 News Coverage

President Barack Obama Birthday Month Proclamation Signed by Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu, Rick Blangiardi

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Obama museum looks for a Home

Honolulu Star Advertiser

02/23/2020

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Learn more about our legacy

Senator Daniel Inouye influenced Hawai'i local Barack Obama

Museum Guest Artist

Artist Kamea Hadar

The piece is entitled 'Hapa' which literally means "part" or "partial" in Hawaiian and refers to people of mixed race. The piece has to do with the idea that Hawai'i is a melting pot of culture and mostly about racial equality. In the background is a speech that he gave in 2008 in Philadelphia titled where he spoke about his background and of racial equality.

"A More Perfect Union" https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88478467