9 ROOMS↗FIRST · THE LIVE ORIGINAL
The original live museum
Begin with the original museum, its familiar spaces and Sema’s guided journey. Continue into the rebuilt collections afterwards.
Step inside →Explore the scene or watch the film
FIJI VIRTUAL HISTORY MUSEUM
ORIGINAL MUSEUM · TWO REBUILT JOURNEYSCOME ON IN
Step into
Fiji’s history.
Step straight inside. Explore the rooms, follow the passageways, and take your time with the stories.
EVERY COLLECTION · ONE JOURNEY
All the scenes. All together.
Continue through the original Museum, every revised room, walkable models, films, stories and study galleries.
9 ROOMS↗
11 ROOMS↗REBUILT · EXPLORE & WATCH
The revised eleven
Eleven rebuilt exhibitions with open passages, new artwork and depth camera films.
Step inside →Explore the scene or watch the film
47 ROOMS↗REBUILT · EXPLORE & WATCH
The history journey
Forty-seven new photographic scenes, connected in one history journey.
Step inside →Explore the scene or watch the film
NEW · SIXTEEN CONNECTED CHAPTERS
An ocean of stories.
Voyagers, makers, families and changing futures. Follow the narrated journey, discover the details, and step into the rooms.
Begin the story →Original reconstruction artwork · Narrated film · Interactive discoveriesORIGINAL FIRST · REVISED ELEVEN · HISTORY FORTY-SEVEN
A room beyond every passage.
Explore new photographic scenes with depth movement, then continue into the next exhibition. Watch the camera films or take the guided journey. Separate model studies and the earlier artwork remain available.
LOOK CLOSER
Objects, materials and craft.
Explore clubs, spears, pottery, bowls, headrests, necklaces, tabua, lali drums and masi. Enlarge each image to study the details.
PEOPLE & DAILY LIFE
People, practice and performance.
Explore rope-making, dress and fans, a yaqona gathering, spear performance and hair through interpretations guided by historical photographs.
FOLLOW THE DATES
A brief timeline of Fiji’s history.
Sixteen milestones from early settlement to independence.
FAITH & REMEMBRANCE
Teachers, translators and mission history.
Follow Pacific beginnings, John and Hannah Hunt, Thomas Baker and his Fijian companions through the history of faith and teaching.
ARCHAEOLOGY & COMMUNITY ACCOUNTS
Bua’s hillforts and high ground.
Explore sixteen hillforts in four groups, and compare the three possible chronologies proposed by the researchers.