Vailima, Samoa

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

It was built in the early 1890s by Robert Louis Stevenson, who spent his last years here. He is only briefly away from the building, buried in the Mount Vaea. After that was the Villa Vailima, among other residence of the Governor of German Samoa and later the seat of the New Zealand mandate management and the Head of State of Samoa. On the 100th anniversary of the death of Robert Louis Stevenson, on 5 December 1994, the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum was opened at the Villa Vailima.