South Sea Islands Museum, Museum of Pacific artifacts in Cooranbong, Australia

The South Sea Islands Museum was a collection of objects from Pacific Island communities, including carvings, weapons, clothing, and shells. The display offered a firsthand view of the material culture from several island regions.

The museum was founded in 1964 and was based on collections gathered by Seventh-day Adventist missionaries who had been active in Australia since 1885. These missionaries had collected objects from the Pacific over many decades.

The collection tells the story of Pacific traditions through objects gathered during missionary journeys across the South Sea. These pieces show how people lived and what mattered to them in their daily lives.

The museum is permanently closed; its artefacts are in storage and cared for by the Adventist Heritage Centre in Cooranbong, with plans for a future museum. The former display building stood at 27 Avondale Road. Visitors should contact the Adventist Heritage Centre, which also holds the missionaries' records from the 1880s, rather than travel to the museum site.

The most visually arresting exhibit was a 52-foot Solomon Islands war canoe, once used for head-hunting raids. It reached Sydney in 1968 aboard the freighter Tulagi, wrapped in sacking to protect it from souvenir hunters, and was announced in the Sydney Morning Herald.