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[Matt_Zukowski]

Just got back from Hawaii. Visited there an eclectic museum with Chinese, Japanese, native Hawaiian, and natural history exhibits. The world-wide minerals on display are pretty darn nice, especially considering that this is a small museum in a small town in Hawaii.

I decided to travel light and so only brought my phone to take pictures. You will see that i have not learned to take good photographs with my phone. Hopefully you will find these interesting.

Mineral exhibits are organized by crystal class. My pictures are similarly organized.

[Matt_Zukowski]

Isometric

[Matt_Zukowski]

uploading difficult right now for some reason - will upload more tomorrow.

[BlueCapProductions]

Great postings Matt. I'm looking forward to seeing all your photos.

I'm in Hawaii 2-3 times a year and I've always wished they had a mineral museum. I had no idea of this one and while I'm always on Oahu, I might plan a trip to the big island when I'm there later this summer.

Thanks for bringing this to the attention of the mineral community!!!

-Bryan

[Matt_Zukowski]

More Isometric

[Matt_Zukowski]

Tetragonal and Triclinic

[Matt_Zukowski]

Trigonal

[Matt_Zukowski]

Hexagonal and Orthorhombic

[Joan Kureczka]

Looks like they've upgraded the displays since Jesse and I were there many years ago. I do recall them having quite a nice collection. I also recall that Joel Bartsch was curator at one time, before making his way to the Houston Museum.

[Matt_Zukowski]

Monoclinic

[Matt_Zukowski]

They had one case devoted to a specimen of Orlymanite
https://www.mindat.org/min-3019.html

[Doug]

I visited the museum in early 1977 and it looks much better now.

Doug