Pitcairn Island Museum

Pitcairn Island Museum is a museum in Pitcairn Island, a British Overseas Territory in th southern Pacific Ocean. The museum was located in a school for many years but moved to a new building in 2005.[1]

The museum contains ancient artefacts such as stone tools, which were made by Polynesians prior to the arrival of the mutineers, relics from the H.M.S. Bounty shipwreck,[2] a wheelbarrow and various books and articles about the history of Pitcairn Island.

References

  1. ↑ "Pitcairn Island Museum". MuseumGuide.info. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "Pitcairn Island". Lonely Planet.

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