Exhibits
The Bailey House Museum contains diverse exhibits on two floors of the historic residence, and on the grounds. They include:
- First floor
- Pre-European contact Hawaiʻian artifacts include utensils, tools, and weapons.
- Landscape oil paintings by Edward Bailey, the 'Sunday painter' works total over one hundred landscape paintings of 19th-century Maui .
- A wooden statue of Kamapua'a, a Hawaiʻian demi-god, created before early 19th-century suppression of native Hawaiʻian religious expression and art. Hidden in an upcountry cave for over a century, it is the only wooden statue on Maui to survive the 1819 purge of the indigenous religion by King Kamehameha II.
- A portion of the Land Snails Shell Collection, of David Dwight Baldwin. After the arrivals of introduced species of alien land snails, many of the native non-marine Mollusk species endemic to Maui have become extinct species.
- A model of the Hokulea — which is a modern-day replica of an ancient Polynesian-style sailing vessel.
- Second floor
The historic house museum displays are represented upstairs on the second floor, where the rooms are furnished as they would have been in early 19th century Hawaii. The museum also houses a significant number of historical papers available to researchers.
- Grounds
A small outlying shelter displays Duke Kahanamoku's 1919 redwood surfboard. Also displayed here is the 33-foot (10 m) Honaunau, a 1900s era outrigger canoe used for fishing. The vessel was carved from a single koa log, and is one of the last koa fishing canoes made in Hawaiʻi.
The gardens of the museum grounds are designed to display native Hawaiian plants, including endangered species of Maui and the Hawaiʻian Islands. A gift shop, featuring locally made artisan items, is located on the south of the Old Bailey House. The museum and grounds are open Monday through Saturday, 10 AM to 4 PM.
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