Pitcairn Island Museum, Historical museum in Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands.
Pitcairn Island Museum is a museum building in Adamstown that displays artifacts from different periods of island habitation. It shows items from early Polynesian settlers through to the time of settlement following the Bounty wreck.
The museum opened in 2004 and houses a cannon recovered from the sea in 1997. This cannon came from the Bounty ship, which sank near the island in the late 1700s.
The collection shows tools and objects made by the first Polynesian inhabitants, giving a sense of how these early people lived and connected with each other. You can see what items were used in daily life.
Visits require advance contact with local staff members on the island. Planning ahead makes it easy to arrange your visit at a time that works for you.
The archives hold letters exchanged between residents of Pitcairn and Norfolk Island, documenting communication between the two remote islands. This correspondence shows how isolated communities stayed in touch with each other.
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