Pacific Tsunami Museum

130 Kamehameha Ave, Hilo, Hi, USA

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+1 808 935 0842

Website:

www.tsunami.org

The museum provides interactive exhibits, documentaries, and docents to explain the tsunami phenomenon and how it affects us in Hawaii, ... more on Gohawaii.com

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Fortunately the 2010 tsunami’s impact was light, but the experience of participating in an orderly, calm mass evacuation demonstrated just how much the consciousness of potential doom is ... more on TripAdvisor

Having had to evacuate our ocean front rental house several days before for 9 hours (27 February-Chile earthquake), visiting the Pacific Tsunami Museum was a frank reminder that the people of Hawai'i ... more on TripAdvisor

It is a place that the staff holds great pride in. more on TripAdvisor

So if you are in Hilo and wondering what to do on a day when it is raining, stop by the museum for a pleasant experience. more on TripAdvisor

Neat historical building, but the museum is tiny and mundane inside (lots of black and white photos, not much else) and the cover price is HIGH for something that takes at most one hour to tour if you stretch it out as long as humanly possible. more on Yahoo! Travel

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Lots of personal vignettes, with period photos...Fascinating. more on TripAdvisor

The staff were well informed and there is a reral sense of it happened here twice in recent history and it could (will) happen again. Our experience and appreciation of the disaster ... more on TripAdvisor

A must see when visiting Hilo. A little hard to find because the signage is small. But well worth the visit. The staff very helpful. For people with disabilities you must ask at desk for assistance to ... more on TripAdvisor

The best part of this museum was a documentary film that showed pictures of the Hilo tsunami of 1946, which wiped out most of the town. They interviewed survivors, who were in the film. Apparently the ... more on TripAdvisor

The museum is small and a bit of a hodge podge. But, we found the workers to be very helpful and the displays informative. The movie in the bank vault was good. My goal was to have elementary aged ... more on TripAdvisor

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Neat historical building, but the museum is tiny and mundane inside (lots of black and white photos, not much else) and the cover price is HIGH for something that takes at ... more on Yahoo! Travel