Hiring Two Positions: Museum Curator and Director of Learning Engagement

FAIN: ZPA-284142-22

Friends of Iolani Palace (Honolulu, HI 96804-2259)
Paula Guanzon (Project Director: May 2021 to December 2021)
Pomai Toledo (Project Director: December 2021 to February 2023)
Michelle Morihara (Project Director: February 2023 to present)

The maintenance of existing programs at Hawaii’s Iolani Palace and develop new cultural and educational programs to preserve, interpret, and share Hawaii’s cultural history, creating two positions.

The Friends of lolani Palace seeks NEH support of $199,650 to hire two of seventeen positions eliminated during the COVID-19 closure of the museum, to fill the Curator and Educator positions. This funding request addresses the need to assemble a collaborative team of experts, knowledge-bearers, teachers, and museum professionals to build the voice and content to showcase the rich Hawaiian history, culture and contemporary issues reflected at Iolani Palace. These two positions will impact an estimated 100,000 visitors per year and over 5,000 cultural treasures in the collections.