FOR TEACHERS
Using the museum in a lesson
Free, no account, nothing to install. It works on a classroom projector, on laptops and on phones.
What is here
- 45 chapters covering Fiji from the first settlers to today, each with short facts and the sources behind them.
- 46 story scenes — 44 panoramas you can look around, with points to tap, and two reference-based images showing the 1970 independence ceremony and masi tools.
- 511 pictures — historical photographs, engravings and museum objects — each with its credit, licence and a link to the record it came from.
- A guided tour that reads each chapter aloud and moves on by itself, for whole-class viewing.
- A reading room that works without JavaScript, for slow connections and screen readers.
- A passport that stamps the chapters a pupil has visited and stars the quizzes they answer correctly. It stays in that browser — no account, no data leaves the device.
A forty-minute lesson
5 min — Arrive. Open the museum on the projector and press Guided tour. It reads the opening chapter aloud while the class looks around the scene.
10 min — Look closely. Stop the tour on one scene. Drag to look around and tap the + points. Ask what each object was for before you read the note aloud.
15 min — Work from sources. Give pairs a chapter from the chapter list. Each one has facts and the sources behind them, and a gallery of pictures with credits. Ask them to find one picture, say what it shows, and name who holds it and under what licence.
10 min — Check and compare. Pupils answer the chapter quiz to earn a star, then compare an Original picture with its Enhanced version and say what the enhancement added — and why that matters when you use pictures as evidence.
Three honest things to tell a class
- The 360° rooms are enhanced environments, not photographs of real places. The museum labels them so, and so should the lesson.
- Pictures marked Enhanced have had colour and detail added. They are interpretations. The original always sits beside them.
- The museum’s text is awaiting cultural and historical review. It is a good starting point and a poor last word; the sources on every chapter page are where the checking begins.
Taking it further
- Browse every picture — each one links to the collection that holds it.
- Chapters as JSON and the collection as JSON, for anyone building something of their own.
- The Great Bure — a 360° walkthrough of the picture galleries.
If you teach in Fiji and something here is wrong, or told wrongly, the museum wants to hear it. Corrections are worth more than compliments.