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Castle Memorial Building
Opens Sat Nov 21, 2026 · Grand opening Fri Nov 20, 6–9 pm

Bishop Museum × World Wide Walls

UNDER/GROUND

A full-scale subway station is coming to the Castle Memorial Building, with a life-size train you can walk into. It's modeled on the painted trains of 1960s and 70s New York, where modern graffiti and hip hop began.

A tattooed artist in a camouflage cap and face covering sprays yellow paint onto a large mural.
Lucky OleloHawaiʻi Walls 2023 · Photo Ja Tecson
Mural on a blue brick wall of a retro boombox over a pink circle, surrounded by light blue hibiscus flowers.
Ken FlewellynHawaiʻi Walls 2023 · Photo Brandon Shigeta
An artist on a ladder painting a large, colorful mural of cartoon characters.
PursueHawaiʻi Walls 2023 · Photo Ja Tecson
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An arm rolling bright yellow paint over a mural wall.
First coat. The roller blocks in the wall before any can comes out.
An artist on a blue boom lift painting a tall mural on the side of a museum building.
Painting at scale on the Bishop Museum campus.
An artist in a black cap with a rainbow logo faces a brightly painted wall.
Every piece starts with someone standing in front of a blank wall.
Hands stirring buckets of pink paint.
Mixing the color by hand.
Paint-spattered pants and rainbow socks on an artist standing on a ladder.
Paint ends up everywhere. It's part of the uniform.
A large indoor mural of several faces rendered in grey, red and teal.
Murals indoors at Bishop Museum.
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The train that carried a culture

A long gallery wall hung with rows of colorful paintings beside a large abstract mural, under an exposed black ceiling with spotlights.

In 2021, World Wide Walls and Bishop Museum turned the Castle building into a streetscape, with a bodega, a tattoo parlor, a record store, murals and original work. This time the partnership goes further underground.

The gallery becomes a full-scale station, anchored by a life-size subway car that visitors can step inside. New York's trains of the 1960s and 70s were where writers took their names citywide, and where hip hop found its soundtrack. The installation puts you on that platform.

Expect all-new murals, sculpture, immersive installations and original fine art. Together they trace how graffiti, street art and hip hop grew from local acts of storytelling and identity into movements that reshaped global culture.

Bringing these environments inside a museum is the point. It treats street culture as a living tradition with its own innovators, and it invites a new generation to create, speak and be seen.

“The exhibition celebrates the dynamic exchange that occurs when different cultures, ideas, and artistic languages collide.”
Jasper Wong · Founder, World Wide Walls
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This museum already wears paint

Our campus features a rotating series of large-scale outdoor murals created by Hawaiʻi-based and visiting artists. These works reflect indigenous perspectives, natural and cultural histories, and the living stories of our community.

Our outdoor murals bridge traditional culture, creative expression, and indigenous perspectives. They were first painted in 2021 alongside the special exhibit POW! WOW! The First Decade: From Hawaiʻi to the World. Murals are commissioned and refreshed over time, so the works on view may differ from those pictured here.

A towering, colorful mural of a woman's face in swirling layers above the entrance of the Castle Memorial Building, framed by hala trees.
Castle Memorial Building · Home of UNDER/GROUND Tsunami on the Institution Hueman · May 2021

Allison Torneros, known in the art world as “Hueman,” is a multidisciplinary artist based in Oakland, CA. She calls her gauzy style “etherealism,” a blend of ethereal realism.

A tall mural of a girl with closed eyes holding a glowing light in her hands, painted on the Science Adventure Center.
Science Adventure Center Mālamalama Kamea Hadar & Cory Taum · August 2021

The title references a torch or guiding light, and also the light of the mind: the torch of knowledge the Museum hopes to pass to the next generation.

Rows of outlined hands, palms down, on a hot pink wall.
Hale Kini, facing the H-1Huli ka lima i lalo, ola!Solomon Enos · Hawaiʻi Walls

Hands turned downward, life. Based on an ʻōlelo noʻeau and the work to protect kāhuli, Hawaiʻi's endangered tree snails.

Brightly painted tree snails on branches and leaves along a long dark wall.
Hale Kini, facing the H-1Mural of SnailsKai Kaulukukui · 2023

Created in 2023, the Year of the Kāhuli.

The museum's front entrance with stairs and walls painted in bold teal, red and blue shapes.
Front entranceMōʻaukalaMark “Devour” Visaya · May 2021
Bold abstract bands of yellow, green and blue patterns painted with spray paint.
Hall of DiscoveryAhupuaʻaApexer · May 2021

Apexer, also known as Ricardo Richey, creates colorful abstract patterns with spray paint.

Large pink flowers and a hand painted across a museum wall under a blue sky.
Back of main entranceUntitledSean “Hula” Yaro

See all campus murals →

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Opening weekend

Members only
NOV
20
FRI

Member Preview

4:00 – 6:00 pm · Doors close 5:45 pm

See it first. A members-only look at the station before the public grand opening. Registration closes Fri Nov 20 at 1 pm.

Member details
$10 pre-register
NOV
20
FRI

Grand Opening

6:00 – 9:00 pm · Members preview 4–6 pm

Be the first to see the exhibition, meet the artists, and stay for DJs, breaking and a hip hop puppet show on the Gallery Lawns. $10 pre-registration, $15 at the door, free for members.

Event details
With admission
NOV
21
SAT

Opening Day

9:00 am – 5:00 pm · All ages

Doors open to everyone. Walk the station, step into the train, and see the new murals up close.

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One fare.
Whole museum.

UNDER/GROUND is included with general admission. No extra token needed.

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General admission
Adults$33.95 – $38.95
Seniors 65 and over$30.95 – $35.95
Youth Ages 4–17$25.95 – $30.95
Children 3 and underFree
HoursOpen daily, 9 am – 5 pm
LocationCastle Memorial Building
Address1525 Bernice St, Honolulu
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Mahalo to our exhibition sponsors

Presenting sponsors

Hawaiian Airlines
White Sands Hotel

Major sponsors

Montana Cans
7-Eleven Hawaiʻi

Supporting sponsors

Zippy's Restaurants
XLarge
Aloha Gas
Hawaiian Telcom
Thinkspace

Contributing sponsors

Begin Here
Omidyar ʻOhana Foundation
City Mill
Sun Bum
Johnson ʻOhana Foundation

In-kind partners

Hawaiian Sun
Thinkspace
Asato’s Family Shop
Uniqlo Hawaii
Enjoy Hawaii
Sean Marrs Photography
Elyse Butler Photography
Brandon Shigeta
Innerbloom
Redefined Media
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Art + Flea
Tūtū’s Place by Highway Inn

Presented in partnership with World Wide Walls.