Fiji Museum

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The Fiji Museum with the Clock Tower.
Fiji Museum in Suva, back to Thurston Gardens
Interior view of the Fiji Museum at the time of opening

The Fiji Museum ( Fiji Museum ) is an ethnographic museum opened in 1955 in Suva , Fiji , located in the Thurston Gardens Botanical Gardens .

The museum houses a large archaeological collection spanning 3,700 years and, as a folklore museum, relics of indigenous cultural history. Special features are e.g. B. Exhibition objects such as the stern rudder of the HMS Bounty or the second Drua known with the name "Ratu Finau" , a Fijian double outrigger canoe ( wangga ndrua ).

Major directors who expanded the museum into a research facility were RA Derrick, B. Palmer, and Fergus Clunie , the current director is Sagale Buadromo.

The legal basis is the Fiji Museum Act and the Preservation of Objects of Archaeological & Palaeontological Interest Act . The State of Fiji has also entrusted the museum with the handling of recent archaeological and anthropological research requests, especially from foreign institutions.

The museum housed the Secretariat of the Pacific Islands Museums Association (PIMA) until 2006, which is then based in Port Vila , Vanuatu . There is a collaboration with the Museum Victoria in Melbourne , who present parts of their collections online.

Publications

  • Bulletin of the Fiji Museum. 1.1973ff. ZDB ID 919885-4
  • Domodomo The Scholarly Journal of the Fiji Museum. 1.1983ff. ZDB ID 28267-4

Exhibition examples

See also

Web links

Commons : Fiji Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred C. Haddon , J. Hornell: Canoes of Oceania. Volume I: The Canoes of Polynesia, Fiji, and Micronesia. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii 1936.
  2. ^ About the online collaboration project , accessed December 27, 2012.

Coordinates: 18 ° 8 ′ 58.8 ″  S , 178 ° 25 ′ 32.6 ″  E