Pacific Tsunami Museum

The Pacific Tsunami Museum provides residents and visitors to the State of Hawaii with much needed tsunami education programs. One of the factors that makes this museum unique is that it is a living monument to those who lost their lives in past tsunamis. By combining scientific information with actual testimony taken from oral histories of tsunami survivors, the museum plans to keep the history alive in its exhibits and public programs. Oral history testimonies reinforce existing scientific information and provide a perspective that will make the tsunami experience "real" for the museum visitor. The museum is dedicated to providing public programs that are accessible to all museum visitors. It also plans to provide foreign language translations for all published museum program materials. ( www.tsunami.org )