Restoration experts in Maui, Hawaii, are alarmed by the destruction of museums, heritage sites and Polynesian cultural artefacts in last month’s wildfires.
Numerous museums and cultural centers are among the sites irreparably damaged by the deadly wildfires that engulfed the Hawaiian island of Maui this month.
In Lahaina, a historic coastal town on the western edge of the island, thousands of structures were ravaged. Among them were many of the 14 museums managed by the Lahaina Restoration Foundation, such as the two-story Wo Hing Museum and Cookhouse, an early 20th-century social hall for Chinese immigrant laborers; the Lahaina courthouse, which housed the Lahaina Heritage Museum; and the nearly 200-year-old Baldwin Home, thought to be known as the oldest building of its kind on Maui...Keep reading on Artnet News.
Numerous museums and cultural centers are among the sites irreparably damaged by the deadly wildfires that engulfed the Hawaiian island of Maui this month.
In Lahaina, a historic coastal town on the western edge of the island, thousands of structures were ravaged. Among them were many of the 14 museums managed by the Lahaina Restoration Foundation, such as the two-story Wo Hing Museum and Cookhouse, an early 20th-century social hall for Chinese immigrant laborers; the Lahaina courthouse, which housed the Lahaina Heritage Museum; and the nearly 200-year-old Baldwin Home, thought to be known as the oldest building of its kind on Maui...Keep reading on Artnet News.