Fiji Museum

The Fiji Museum ( Fiji Museum ) is a 1955 opened the Museum of Ethnology in Suva, Fiji, located in the Botanic Gardens Thurston Gardens.

The museum houses a large archaeological collection in the temporal scope of 3700 years, as well as a folklore museum relics of indigenous cultural history. Special features are, for example, exhibits such as the tail rudder of the HMS Bounty or known by the name of " Ratu Finau " second left today Drua, a Fijian double canoe ( wangga ndrua ).

Significant directors, who turned the museum into a research facility, were RA Derrick, B. Palmer, and Fergus Clunie, currently Director is Sagale Buadromo.

The legal basis is the Fiji Museum Act and the Preservation of Objects of Archaeological and Palaeontological Interest Act. The museum was transferred by the State Fiji also handling of recent archaeological and anthropological research proposals, particularly by international institutions.

The Fiji Museum -based Secretariat of the Pacific Islands Museums Association ( PIMA ) until 2006, then based in Port Vila, Vanuatu. There is cooperation with the Museum Victoria in Melbourne, imagine the 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