The BYU–Hawaii Museum of Natural History, founded in 1978, closed permanently in 2024. The museum and its specimens played an important role in the education of students and visitors to the BYU–Hawaii campus. With the closure of the BYU–Hawaii Natural History Museum, the specimens that were used for education and put on public display have now been given to the Honolulu Zoo and Honolulu Zoo Society for educational and public outreach purposes. Most of the research collection specimens were transferred to the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The remaining specimens, related to Hawaii’s natural history, have been retained by BYU–Hawaii Faculty of Sciences.