Qualla: Honolulu Museum of Art https://qualla.com/honolulu-museum-of-art en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/z/c/honolulu-museum-of-art-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Honolulu Museum of Art https://qualla.com/honolulu-museum-of-art Honolulu Museum of Art: Introduction https://qualla.com/honolulu-museum-of-art/ Photo credit Unknown, Public domain. Anna Rice Cooke grew up in a missionary household on Maui, surrounded by the collision of cultures that defined nineteenth-century Hawaii. Chinese plantation workers, Japanese immigrants, Native Hawaiians, Portuguese laborers, American merchants -- each brought artistic traditions that the others rarely saw. Cooke believed that if people could stand together before a beautiful object, the differences between them might shrink. In 1922, she founded what would become the Honolulu Museum of Art, and when the doors opened on April 8, 1927, her vision took physical form: an open-courtyard building designed by Bertram Goodhue's firm, where galleries of Asian silk paintings opened onto gardens, and European Renaissance panels hung steps away from Pacific Island carvings.

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/z/c/honolulu-museum-of-art-wp/87zc-honolulu-museum-of-art-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Honolulu Museum of Art: Crossroads in a Courtyard https://qualla.com/honolulu-museum-of-art/ Photo credit AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain. The museum's permanent collection has grown to more than 55,000 works, and its strengths reflect Hawaii's position as a crossroads of the Pacific. The Asian holdings alone exceed 20,000 pieces, with dedicated galleries for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian, Southeast Asian, Indon...

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/z/c/honolulu-museum-of-art-wp/87zc-honolulu-museum-of-art-crossroads-in-a-courtyard.mp3 0:06 2 full Honolulu Museum of Art: A Collector's Island https://qualla.com/honolulu-museum-of-art/ Photo credit Kostakulundzic, CC BY-SA 4.0. Several major private collections shaped the museum's identity. Robert Allerton, who maintained a lavish estate on Kauai, donated significant works. The Charles M. and Anna C. Cooke Gallery anchors the Western painting collection. In 2011, The Contemporary Museum -- Honolulu's de...

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/z/c/honolulu-museum-of-art-wp/87zc-honolulu-museum-of-art-a-collectors-island.mp3 0:06 3 full Honolulu Museum of Art: Where the Light Gets In https://qualla.com/honolulu-museum-of-art/ Photo credit Sdkb, CC BY-SA 4.0. J. Carter Brown, who directed the National Gallery of Art in Washington from 1969 to 1992, called it "the finest small museum in the United States." The compliment captures something essential. The Honolulu Museum of Art is not trying to be encyclopedic in the way that the Met or...

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]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/8/7/z/c/honolulu-museum-of-art-wp/87zc-honolulu-museum-of-art-where-the-light-gets-in.mp3 0:06 4 full Honolulu Museum of Art: Doris Duke's Shangri La https://qualla.com/honolulu-museum-of-art/ Photo credit John Singer Sargent, Public domain. Closely affiliated with the museum is Shangri La, the oceanfront estate built by American heiress Doris Duke beginning in 1937. Located at the base of Diamond Head, the house was designed as a living showcase for Islamic art and architecture, incorporating tile work, carved scree...

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