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 HONOLULU (AP) - Fake lava bursts from a 26-foot volcano at the Bishop Museum's new $17 million Science Center, which hopes to increase attendance with dramatic new exhibits about the Pacific island chain.
Museum officials tout the volcano as one of the nation's leading exhibits, as reporters toured the 16,500-square-foot building this week, dodging paint cans and ladders while walking through nearly completed darkened lava caverns, an aquarium and scores of galleries.
"What we have here is the first, and probably only, thematic science center in the world," museum president Bill Brown said. "It's quite sophisticated."
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