Alexander and Baldwin Sugar Museum

Our Mission: To preserve and present the history and heritage of the sugar industry and the multiethnic plantation life which it engendered.

Our Vision: To provide an enriching experience to those learning about the history of the sugar industry and understanding Hawaii’s plantation heritage and how it helped shape our current island society. To become a major visitor destination and community educational resource. To provide an outdoor space for the community with a venue for their cultural festivals as well as a gathering place for reunions and other social events.

Value Statement:

Communication: Build open and honest relationships through communication

Integrity: Be reliable, trustworthy, transparent and honest in our relationships

Respect: For people, communities, cultures

Consideration: Recognizing and responding to the needs of visitors, staff members and volunteers

Collaboration: Good ideas come from everywhere, and we all work together to support innovation, increase adaptability and reduce costs

Access: Provide to the public access and availability to materials of an historical nature that express and evidence the history of the sugar industry and plantation life. Include access to all in museum programs and activities

Education Program Statement:

What we do: As the primary source of information on the history of sugar on Maui, the Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum responds to the educational needs of the community by developing programs that interpret the history of the sugar industry and the cultural heritage of multiethnic plantation life; providing online learning materials in an historic setting; providing learning materials online, and supporting educators’ teaching goals.

For whom do we do it: For Maui’s students’ pre-K to college, families with school aged children, teens, adults and seniors, residents and visitors alike.

How we do it: In partnership with Maui’s students, teachers and communities of learning, we provide an extension of the classroom on-line with meaningful learning materials and in an historical setting, using authentic objects and hands on activities along with guided instruction and question and answer techniques to encourage critical thinking. We strive to align our content to State of Hawaii Department of Education benchmarks, and remove barriers that would otherwise deny access to learning.

Why we do it: To create an awareness of the influence of the sugar industry on the island, and the legacy it left behind, which is evident today in its people and landscape; to make connections between the past and present; to create a deeper understanding of the history of Maui, and to instill a passion for lifelong learning beyond the classroom.