The British Museum Is Hosting a Major Exhibition on Hawai’i

To mark 200 years since King Kamehameha II (Liholiho) and Queen Kamāmalu travelled from Hawaiʻi to London (the first Hawaiian monarchs ever to visit the UK), the British Museum is hosting the Hawaiʻi: a kingdom crossing oceans exhibition. The show brings that journey and the cultural exchange between the two nations, to life, through a range of objects not seen in the UK before. Two royal treasures – a red feathered cloak gifted by King Kamehameha to King George III (which has not been publicly displayed since 1900) and the letter in which he petitioned the British Crown – reunited for the first time since the 1800s form the heart of the exhibition.