Wo Hing Temple Museum


Wo Hing Temple Museum is located at Front Street in Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii and is approximately seven miles from Kapalua-West Maui Airport. The property was built in 1912 and served the Chinese community here, especially those working in the sugar cane industry. The building was restored in the early 1980s after years of neglect and was opened as a museum.

A marker and a plaque outside the museum give members of the public an insight into the history of the building. The public will be able to visit the site, which is essentially split into two sections; the main building and a cookhouse to the side. The main building has two floors, the lower level being an area filled with Chinese artifacts and items from the start of the 20th century showing life in Lahaina.

On the second floor visitors can see more Chinese artifacts as well as altars to Chinese deities. Visitors can also go to the cookhouse, where appropriately they can see various cooking artifacts. The cookhouse now also contains a small theater where members of the public can view films taken of Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th century by Thomas Edison.

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