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Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum

Address: 3957 Hansen Rd., Puunene, HI, 96784 | Map It
Phone: 808/871-8058
www.sugarmuseum.com

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Central Maui

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Fodor's Review:

"A&B," Maui's largest landowner, was one of the "Big Five" companies that spearheaded the planting, harvesting, and processing of sugarcane. Although Hawaiian cane sugar is now being supplanted by cheaper foreign versions—as well as by sugar derived from inexpensive sugar beets—the crop was for many years the mainstay of the Hawaiian economy. You can find the museum in a small, restored plantation manager's house next to the post office and the still-operating sugar refinery (black smoke billows up when cane is burning). Historic photos, artifacts, and documents explain the introduction of sugarcane to Hawaii and how plantation managers brought in laborers from other countries, thereby changing the Islands' ethnic mix. Exhibits also describe the sugar-making process.

Cost: $ 7
Open: Mon.-Sat. 9:30-4.

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