Norfolk Island Museum

Norfolk Island Museum is a museum organisation on Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia in the southern Pacific Ocean. The museum comprises five sites and collections that include archaeological, archival and social history objects that reflect subsequent waves of forced migration to the island.

Norfolk Island Museum
LocationKingston, Norfolk Island
Coordinates29.055°S 167.961°E / -29.055; 167.961
Key holdingsObjects relating the HMS Sirius, HMS Bounty
CollectionsArchaeology, Social History
Websitenorfolkislandmuseum.com.au

Sites
Norfolk Island Lighter Boat, with Pier Store in background

Norfolk Island Museum consists of five sites: No. 10 Quality Row - a Georgian period house; Pier Store - a museum of the Bounty Mutineers and Pitcairn Island; Sirius Museum - a maritime museum dedicated to HMS Sirius; Commissariat Store - housing archaeological displays; Norfolk Island Research Centre - the archive.[1][2] The museums lie within the Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area, a World Heritage Site also linked to the Australian Convict Sites.[3]

Collections

Collections held by Norfolk Island Museum include material excavated from the HMS Sirius during a research programme led by Graham Henderson in the 1980s.[4] This consists of over 6000 objects.[5] The collection also includes material from archaeological excavations on the island, both prehistoric and historic, including material excavated during the Norfolk Island Prehistory Project.[6] Objects include yolla stones, which are a kind of grater.[7]

The archaeological collections are extensively catalogued.[8] The collection include objects relating to the social history of the islands, for example buildings such as the Paradise Hotel.[9] There are also 14,000 objects relating to the history of the penal colonies.[10] The collections also include objects acquired by the Norfolk Island Historical Society, such as the Bounty Ring.[11]

Archival collections include the diaries of missionary Julia Coleridge Farr, who kept diaries during her stay on the island in the 1890s. The physical copies of these have been digitised.[12] The holdings also include early maps of the island.[13]

Overseas collections

Objects relating to the history of Norfolk Island are held in overseas collections, including: Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge, Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in Leiden, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, amongst others.

  • Water drip filter, Powerhouse Museum
    Water drip filter, Powerhouse Museum
  • Protest hand, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
    Protest hand, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
  • Norfolk pigeon, Naturalis Biodiversity Centre
    Norfolk pigeon, Naturalis Biodiversity Centre
  • Coralliophila norfolk in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
    Coralliophila norfolk in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle

Directors

See also

References
  1. "Norfolk Island Museum | Norfolk Island Museum". norfolkislandmuseum.com.au. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
  2. Daly, Margo (2003). Australia. Rough Guides. p. 391. ISBN 978-1-84353-090-9.
  3. Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Australian Convict Sites". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
  4. Catsambis, Alexis; Ford, Ben; Hamilton, Donny L. (2014). The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology. Oxford University Press. p. 568. ISBN 978-0-19-933600-5.
  5. NSW, Museums & Galleries. "Norfolk Island Museum". MGNSW. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
  6. Anderson, Atholl, and Peter White, eds. The prehistoric archaeology of Norfolk Island, southwest Pacific. Sydney: Australian Museum, 2001.
  7. Furey, Louise; Ash, Emma (2020). "'Old Stones for Cash'. The Acquisition History of the Pitcairn Stone Tool Collection in Auckland Museum". Records of the Auckland Museum. 55: 1–18. ISSN 1174-9202. JSTOR 27008989.
  8. Gibbs, Martin; Duncan, Brad; Varman, Robert (2017-09-02). "The free and unfree settlements of Norfolk Island: an overview of archaeological research". Australian Archaeology. 83 (3): 82–99. doi:10.1080/03122417.2017.1404732. ISSN 0312-2417.
  9. Baker, Sarah; Cantillon, Zelmarie (2022-12-01). "Zines as community archive". Archival Science. 22 (4): 539–561. doi:10.1007/s10502-022-09388-1. hdl:10072/416786. ISSN 1573-7500.
  10. "Collections | Norfolk Island Museum". norfolkislandmuseum.com.au. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
  11. "Norfolk Island Museum Trust | Norfolk Island Museum". norfolkislandmuseum.com.au. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
  12. Nash, Joshua (2012-12-01). "Melanesian Mission Place Names on Norfolk Island". The Journal of Pacific History. 47 (4): 475–489. doi:10.1080/00223344.2012.740166. ISSN 0022-3344.
  13. Nash, Joshua. "On the Possibility of Pidgin English Toponyms in Pacific Missions." Historiographia Linguistica 42.1 (2015).
  14. Nechtman, Tillman W. (2018-09-13). The Pretender of Pitcairn Island: Joshua W. Hill – The Man Who Would Be King Among the Bounty Mutineers. Cambridge University Press. pp. xiii. ISBN 978-1-108-42468-4.
  15. Viduka, Andrew. "Building Capacity in the South West Pacific–The Norfolk Island Maritime Archaeological Association." Proceedings of the 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage. 2017.
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