Villa Vailima

The house in Vailima. Stevenson can be seen up on the porch. Photography around 1893

Today's Robert Louis Stevenson Museum

The Villa Vailima is a historical building and museum near Apia , the capital of Samoa on the island of Upolu .

It was built at the beginning of the 1890s by Robert Louis Stevenson , who spent his last years here. He is only a short distance from the building on which Mount Vaea is buried. Thereafter, the Villa Vailima was, among other things, the residence of the governor of German Samoa and later the seat of the New Zealand mandate administration and the head of state of Samoa . On the 100th anniversary of Robert Louis Stevenson's death, on December 5, 1994, the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum was opened in the Villa Vailima.

Web links

• Robert Louis Stevenson Museum. In: web presence. Samoa Tourism Authority, accessed January 6, 2013 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson Museum at Vailima, Western Samoa. In: web presence. RLS website, accessed January 6, 2013 . 

Coordinates: 13 ° 52 ′ 0 ″  S , 171 ° 45 ′ 57 ″  W.