Bishop Museum lays off 6% of staff following grant loss

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By Star-Advertiser staff
POSTED: 02:15 p.m. HST, Feb 14, 2012
LAST UPDATED: 03:30 p.m. HST, Feb 14, 2012

The Bishop Museum last week laid off 13 administrative and management employees — 6 percent of the museum's workforce — after losing $2.2 million in federal funding.

Through January, the museum's financial performance was running ahead of its goal but the loss of federal earmarks "was a very large amount to lose at one time," said Blair Collis, Bishop Museum president and CEO.

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Overall operations and hours will not be affected by the layoffs, he said.

However, the museum will eliminate its regular public access to its library and archives for the next year while it experiments with appointment-only access and looks for better ways to make its collection available, Collis said.

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1. Four things you must do if you visit Oahu

1. Pearl Harbor
2. Bishop Museum
3. Royal Palace
4. Polynesian Cultural Center

My wife and I had a second Honeymoon of sorts in Oahu in October, 2011. We had a wonderful time. Spend your dollars at the Bishop Museum and skip some of the other high priced attractions. It is a wonderful museum.

Also consider getting a 4 day bus pass instead of a rental car. We had a rental car for a weekend to get us around the island, and we used the bus or walked the rest of the time.