The Natural History of Hawai’i Monday, August 19 7:00p – 8:30p Local historian and master storyteller Boyd Bond recounts how our islands came to be, with a special look at the “Natural History of Hawai’i”.  Learn how the first plants, animals, and humans adapted and created unique habitats, and how the human settlers recast their ancestral […]

July 26, 2013 through January 11, 2014 The John Howard Pierce Photograph Collection is the subject of a Lyman Museum special exhibit that opened on July 26, 2013 and runs through January 11, 2014.  It follows the Museum’s acclaimed Sasana exhibit that closed on May 25, 2013.

‘Imiloa After Dark Features Local Musician Hilo, Hawai‘i – Hilo award winning musician, Mark Yamanaka, kicks off ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center’s evening series, ‘Imiloa After Dark.

Discovery by the Kepler Mission and validation by the Gemini Observatory Hilo, Hawai‘i – The NASA Kepler mission was launched in March of 2009 and has been providing astounding results such as the discovery of over 3,000 exoplanets orbiting alien suns as well as paradigm changing astrophysics.

60th Annual Hilo Orchid Society Show and Sale – One of Hilo’s biggest events of the year! Includes demonstration seminars and a silent auction.

HILO, Hawai`i (June 5, 2013) — On Monday, June 24 at 7 p.m., Peter Van Dyke of the Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden in Captain Cook will speak at the Lyman Museum about the cultural, aesthetic, and horticultural considerations of using native plants in landscaping.

HILO, Hawai`i (May 28, 2013) — Between December 1943 and August 1945, some 55,000 U.S. Marines, Navy Corpsmen, and Seabees called the Big Island “home.”

HILO, Hawai`i (April 30, 2013) — Dr. Don Hemmes, professor emeritus of biology at the University of Hawai`i at Hilo, returns to the Lyman Museum 7 p.m. Monday, May 6 for a special presentation on his favorite seashells.

HILO, Hawai`i (April 15, 2013) — Big Island historian Boyd Bond visits the Lyman Museum at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 22 to discuss the life and times of Walter Murray Gibson

HILO, Hawai`i (April 1, 2013) — Which mushrooms are most commonly found in Hawai`i? Find out Monday, April 8 at 7 p.m. when Dr. Don Hemmes, professor emeritus of biology at the University of Hawai`i at Hilo, gives an illustrated talk at the Lyman Museum.