At-A-Glance

Customize your classroom experience by hand-picking your activities or History Theatre performance!

Virtual Tours: Choose 2, 30 minute activities from our selection

Check out the one-page reference guide: Virtual Tours At-A-Glance

Preview full list of activities and curriculum at  Browse by Content Theme 

History Theatre: Choose from over 40 portrayals available

Check out the one-page reference guide: History Theatre At-A-Glance

For more portrayal descriptions, browse the

Portrayals with Curriculum or Full List of Available Portrayals

Ready to book your Virtual Tour or History Theatre??  Use the Google forms:

Book A Virtual Tour Book A History Theatre Performance

Or get in touch with us, there are humans at Hawaiian Mission Houses!

Email: education@missionhouses.org Phone: 808.447.3918

Virtual Tours are $4 per student

History Theatre Performances: 

Pre-recorded performances are $150

Live (virtual) performances are $300

Optional Question and Answer "Talk-Back" sessions with Curator of Public Programs are $30

Optional Question and Answer "Talk-Back" sessions with the Actor and Curator of Public Programs are $50

Admissions Scholarships are available!! 

Scholarships cover 100% of the cost to your organization - please inquire at education@missionhouses.org, call 808.447.3918 or just indicate you are interested in a scholarship on your Virtual Tour Booking Form 

These scholarships are provided by state grant support of these programs and by direct contributions from caring individuals - in other words, the community is gifting the access to these programs for your classroom! 

Interested in paying it forward for other classes or know someone who might be? 

Click or send the link below and select "Support School Tours"!

Give the gift of an HMH School Program

To secure the requested date of your program, fill out the booking forms and submit a 50% deposit.

Please submit a final payment before or on the day of your program.

Deposits and final payments can be submitted by:

Check made out to Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives  and sent to 

Or 

Credit card payment over the phone via Authorize.net

by calling our School Programs & Volunteer Coordinator at 808.447.3918

Let us know if your organization needs an invoice from Hawaiian Mission Houses for billing purposes!

Our virtual school tours are one-hour and there are a variety of 30 minute activities to choose from to customize your students experience.

Book a Virtual Tour Virtual Tour Content At-A-Glance

A good choice for dual language and immersion classrooms, many of the activities can be led in ‘ōlelo Hawaiʻi  or in English. HMH offers tours  where the content is told from multiple perspectives about the lives of people who lived and interacted here. If you are interested in a Hawaiian language program, please use the same booking form and select the options for activities available in ‘ōlelo Hawaiʻi. 

Book a Virtual Tour Virtual Tour Content At-A-Glance

Tours can be given in ‘ōlelo Hawaiʻi  or in English. HMH offers tours  where the content is told from multiple perspectives about the lives of people who lived and interacted here. Specialty tours offer in-depth information about the architecture, history, and embedded Hawaiian cultural belief systems of the site. 

There are a lot of portrayals to choose from! Check out this Full List of History Theatre Portrayals with descriptions.

The Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives, or Hawaiian Mission Houses (HMH) includes three restored houses, two of which are among the oldest Western-style houses still-standing in Hawai`i. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965 and was accredited by the American Alliance of Museums in 1972.

Hawaiian Mission Houses Website

The vision of Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives is to enrich the community by fostering thoughtful dialogue and greater understanding of the missionary role and impact on the history of Hawai’i.

Inquiry-based content follows Department of Education benchmarks with special attention to College, Career and Civic Life (C3) Framework for State Social Studies Standards, including: Hawaiʻi’s history, particularly between 1820-63; interactions between aliʻi, makaʻāinana, and missionaries; architecture of Western style houses and hale pili; cultural practices of building a hale pili; children’s lives and activities in the 19th century; shelter; clothing; cultures meeting; why foreigners came to Hawaiʻi; perspective through music; and more. 

More About the Curriculum Development

Select original primary sources for the tour content and portrayals are on view the 

HMH Digital Collection 

During the museum closure, the education team developed resources to increase out digital education outreach. Check out the compilation of their work, including short videos, at-home-activities, and Hawaiian language/concept learning, in the Learning Resource Archive section.