Surf Museum Hawaii (SMH) has added another rare piece to our growing ephemera collection. This one is unlike the usual suspect travel magazines of the...
Author: Marcus M | SMH Chief Curator Butler, 1858 (source) Around 315,000 BC, Thag and Zorak, two of the first homo-sapiens, were lounging around their...
1930s “Paipo board” (image: Smithsonian) Author: Marcus M | SMH Chief Curator Laguna Beach CA’s South Coast Highway is loaded with all sorts of eclectic...
- 3 August 2024
Surf Museum Hawaii (SMH) is building up its ephemera collection. Some of the printed antiquities will be a part of the permanent exhibit, and others...
Hobie Surfboards is without question the most enduring brand in surfing. Dale Velzy may have been the first to open a board shaping brick and...
On our schedule of Vintage Surfboard and Memorabilia Auctions (view here) we provided a “gone but not forgotten” shout-out to the Hawaiian Islands Vintage Surf...
As curators of surf memorabilia, our team is tasked to comb through surf swap meets, antique markets, and private collections all over the islands and...
Author: Marcus Maraih (@marcus_ocean) Do you know why the team behind Surf Museum Hawaii (SMH) started the project? So we’d have a place to store...
Surfers are serious content consumers. We have to be, given that wave conditions rarely cooperate with our idle time. In the beginning, consumption habits generally...
Author: Marcus Maraih The team at Surf Museum Hawaii (SMH) is haunted by vintage surfboards, surf memorabilia, and related collectibles. We’d be unqualified curators of...
There is no overstating the importance of a surfboard logo, which is ironic given that ancient Hawaiians (the architects of surfing) refused to adorn boards...
Surf Museum Hawaii (SMH) is where the world comes to appreciate surf history and culture while in the archipelagic embrace of the Hawaiian Islands –...
“Richly talented artist and cartoonist originally from Palos Verdes, California; best known to surfers as the creator of Murphy, the cheerful cartoon gremmie who debuted...
The Society of American Archaeology defines its discipline as “the study of the ancient and recent human past through material remains”. Archaeological records generally focus...
