The struggling Pacific Tsunami Museum is calling for community support to keep its doors open. HPR’s Savannah Harriman-Pote reports on what’s next for this Hilo landmark.
In the same story, Paul Alston, an attorney and trustee with the Olson Trust, said they “received a $25,000 commitment from ...
And it's more expensive than we're able to manage.” While Preller emphasised that the museum—founded in the 1990s by Jeanne Johnston, a survivor of the tsunami that hit the island in 1946 —is “not ...
Located in downtown Hilo on the Island of Hawaii, the Pacific Tsunami Museum was initially founded 30 years ago to fill that void — a hub for education and awareness that contends “no one ...
The Pacific Tsunami Museum in Hilo, dedicated to preserving stories of survival and educating about tsunami preparedness, is facing financial challenges that threaten its future. The Pacific ...
The Pacific Tsunami Museum is in dire financial straits, and its organizers hope the community will step up and help it navigate out of troubled waters. According to Carol Walker, acting board ...
The Pacific Tsunami Museum building in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, formerly the Kamehameha branch of the First Hawaiian Bank until 1997 (photo public domain via Wikimedia Commons) Success! Your account was ...
“There was a tsunami then and we know about that tsunami partly from the oral history along the Pacific Northwest coast. We know it from geology studies of tsunami deposits, but we have the date ...
Earlier this month, the Pacific Tsunami Museum laid off all 10 of its employees and suspended operations. Former staff are now volunteering their time to keep the doors open on a reduced schedule.
The Pacific Tsunami Museum, which has fallen on financial hard times, received some good news to start its new year. “We’ve donated $100,000; we’ve got another $100,000 in process,” Paul ...
“He expressed a great deal of interest in the welfare and future of the museum and support for getting ... and was an economic casualty of the 1960 tsunami. “The processing plant was wiped ...