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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 56 (see Appendix A) requests that the Legislative Reference Bureau "conduct a feasibility study on designating the Bernice P. Bishop Museum as the State Museum for Natural and Cultural History with a line item appropriation of an annual public contribution for the operation of the Hawaii State Museum and further, that the study consider acquisition, by the State of Hawaii, of those Bishop Museum real estate properties that are of cultural and historical significance to the people of Hawaii." The Resolution states the Bishop Museum would be a more stable and productive educational and scientific institution if such public funds were made available, and points out that the Bishop Museum contributes to the public because: (1) Specimens and objects of natural, botanical, ethnological, architectural, historical, and archaeological value or interest are transferred to the Bishop Museum, pursuant to section 6E-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes; (2) The Bishop Museum is a rich reservoir of educational resources for Hawaii's students; (3) The Bishop Museum conducts research programs in the Pacific region and these studies help preserve the arts, artifacts, and biological specimens of the Pacific; and (4) The scientific research conducted by the Bishop Museum on animals, plants, and cultures of the Pacific is beneficial to research institutions throughout the world, and this research focuses international attention on Hawaii.
STATE FUNDING FOR THE BISHOP MUSEUM The Resolution offers as a model for the relationship between state government and the Bishop Museum, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., an educational and scientific institution founded and operated under the concept of public-private partnership. The issue of state support for the Bishop Museum is not a new one. In response to legislative requests, the Legislative Reference Bureau published two reports entitled: Feasibility Study: State Acquisition of Bishop Museum' and Financial Vicissitudes of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum,' in 1972 and 1973, respectively. The 1972 study concluded that "state acquisition of the Museum is not a viable option at this time.. . . Financial assistance, rather than government acquisition of Bishop Museum, appears to be a practical and feasible method by which the State of Hawaii could support a part of its responsibility in the area of providing museum services.. . . Financial assistance to Bishop Museum could enable it to play a greater role as the institution for the learning, preservation, and presentation of the unique culture and heritage of the children of Hawaii".' Methodology In order to determine whether it would be feasible to establish the Bishop Museum as the State Museum for Natural and Cultural History with an annual line item appropriation, and for the State to acquire certain Bishop Museum real estate properties, it was decided to gain a broad perspective on museums; learn about the funding of museums in other states, and the concept of the public-private museum partnership; better understand the workings of the Bishop Museum, in relation to other museums in the nation; and examine the contribution of the Bishop Museum to the State of Hawaii. The emphasis of the study, as in Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 56, was on the question of state financial support to the Museum. following: Accordingly, the principal data gathering activities consisted of the
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