The new Pearl Harbor Memorial Museum & Visitor Center allows for enhanced educational and interpretive programming and improved visitor amenities. New and more historically comprehensive galleries and exhibits, additional open-air exhibits and other interpretive displays, and an Education & Research Center with video-teleconferencing capabilities for distance learning serve to enlighten and educate millions of visitors and thousands of school children from Hawaii and the nation that visit each year. With this new facility we are able to more appropriately remember, understand and honor our "greatest generation" and the events which launched the United States into World War II.
The new Vistior Center includes an additional six acres of adjacent land, bringing the total land area to approximately 17 acres. The new Museum & Visitor Center facility on this site is approximately 24,000 square feet in area, more than doubling the size of the previous exhibition space. The "footprint" of the facility was moved to more stable areas of the site to address previous structural issues. Advancements in engineering technologies, and new materials, not available when the facility was first built in 1980, ensure the structural soundness of the new Museum & Visitor Center.
The new facility houses an expanded state-of-the-art museum with new and more historically comprehensive galleries and multimedia exhibits, additional open-air exhibits and other interpretive displays, outdoor areas for the presentation of oral histories and other educational and interpretive activities, two digital movie theatres for education and visitor orientation, and improved visitor amenities. Essential to the project will be the Education and Research Center with video-teleconferencing capabilities designed to better accommodate the growing number of students who participate in PHP's award-winning "Witness to History" distance learning programs. This program allows school children in grades 4 through 12 and college students from Hawaii and around the world to connect remotely to WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument (USS Arizona Memorial) to learn first-hand from Pearl Harbor Survivors, educators, historians, and NPS rangers about the history of the December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, WWII in the Pacific, and Hawaiian history and culture.
The new facility also serves as the central entrance and ticketing location for all visitors to the four Pearl Harbor historic sites: WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument, USS Bowfin Submarine Museum, USS Missouri Memorial, and the Pacific Aviation Museum.
This facility was designed in a "campus style" layout, consisting of both conditioned and open-air spaces positioned within liberal open green areas. This type of site plan takes advantage of the mild Hawaiian weather and its trade winds that consistently cool the island allowing for the creation of an energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly facility based upon the principles of LEEDS: Leadership, Energy, and Environmental Design. In fact, the US Green Building Council (USGNC) recently awarded the new museum and visitor center design a Silver LEED Green Building System Certification. The design maximizes the use of the available space enhancing the comfort and flow of visitors through the facility while offering and preserving unobstructed panoramic views of Pearl Harbor and the Memorial.
Exhibits and displays were designed to walk visitors and students through history from pre-attack Hawaii to early WWII in the Pacific and provide the necessary atmospheric controls to better preserve priceless artifacts.
The new facility houses an expanded state-of-the-art museum with new and more historically comprehensive galleries and multimedia exhibits, additional open-air exhibits and other interpretive displays, outdoor areas for the presentation of oral histories and other educational and interpretive activities, two digital movie theatres for education and visitor orientation, and improved visitor amenities. Essential to the project will be the Education and Research Center with video-teleconferencing capabilities designed to better accommodate the growing number of students who participate in PHP's award-winning "Witness to History" distance learning programs. This program allows school children in grades 4 through 12 and college students from Hawaii and around the world to connect remotely to WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument (USS Arizona Memorial) to learn first-hand from Pearl Harbor Survivors, educators, historians, and NPS rangers about the history of the December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, WWII in the Pacific, and Hawaiian history and culture.
The new facility also serves as the central entrance and ticketing location for all visitors to the four Pearl Harbor historic sites: WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument, USS Bowfin Submarine Museum, USS Missouri Memorial, and the Pacific Aviation Museum.
This facility was designed in a "campus style" layout, consisting of both conditioned and open-air spaces positioned within liberal open green areas. This type of site plan takes advantage of the mild Hawaiian weather and its trade winds that consistently cool the island allowing for the creation of an energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly facility based upon the principles of LEEDS: Leadership, Energy, and Environmental Design. In fact, the US Green Building Council (USGNC) recently awarded the new museum and visitor center design a Silver LEED Green Building System Certification. The design maximizes the use of the available space enhancing the comfort and flow of visitors through the facility while offering and preserving unobstructed panoramic views of Pearl Harbor and the Memorial.
Exhibits and displays were designed to walk visitors and students through history from pre-attack Hawaii to early WWII in the Pacific and provide the necessary atmospheric controls to better preserve priceless artifacts.
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