Department of Accounting and General Services

Aloha! Due to ongoing going efforts to remove the bees on ʻIolani Palace Grounds, ʻIolani Palace, the State Archives, and the grounds will be closed to the public for safety reasons. The State Archives is still open for business, please contact us via email at archives@hawaii.gov or call us at 808-586-0329. Mahalo!

Aloha! Please take caution this afternoon when venturing onto ʻIolani Palace Grounds. The ewa/west side of the grounds, by the Barracks, has an active bee hive with aggressive bees, visitors should try to avoid. The gates of ʻIolani Palace Grounds will be locked except for the Diamond Head/east gate, across from the Hawaii State Public […]

Aloha! In conjunction with Dr. Ron Williams, Jr.’s “ʻIke Mōakaaka. Revealing Native Agency in Unlikely Places: The 1894 Constitution of the Republic of Hawaiʻi”” talk, the records of the 1894 Constitutional Convention have been digitized and are now accessible online via our Online Exhibitions page at: http://ags.hawaii.gov/archives/online-exhibitions/1894-constitutional-convention/. They are available for download as PDF files.