HONOLULU (KHON2) — When you visit ʻIolani Palace today, it can be easy to picture it as it looked when Hawaiʻi had a monarchy.
But the building did not become a museum right away. Its story changed after the Hawaiian monarchy was overthrown. So, how did it become a museum? For that answer we turned to ʻIolani Palace’s archives. Here’s what we found in them.
ʻIolani Palace was built in 1882 by King Kalākaua. It was the official home of Hawaiʻi’s monarchs; and his sister, Queen Liliʻuokalani, later became queen…