Bounty Museum
Bounty Museum, also Bounty Folk Museum, is a privately-owned museum on Norfolk Island, an Australian external territory in the Pacific.[1]
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Former name | Bounty Folk Museum |
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| Location | Norfolk Island |
| Type | Folk museum |
| Key holdings | Memorabilia relating to the Bounty mutineers |
| Website | https://www.facebook.com/bountymuseum |
Its collection includes archival photographs, HMS Bounty memorabilia and medical instruments. Interpretation focuses on what life was like for the early settlers from Pitcairn Island.[2][3][4] A display in the 1990s and 2000s also included two supposedly Melanesian drums, but doubt has been cast over their provenance.[5]
The presence of the museum has also been cited as part of a movement on the island to consolidate and emphasise their unique identity.[6]
The Norfolk Island book Dark Paradise by Robert Macklin published in July 2013 was written in the Bounty Museum.
References
- "Bounty Folk Museum | Norfolk Island, Australia & Pacific | Attractions". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
- "Bounty Folk Museum | History & Culture | Norfolk Island". www.norfolkisland.com.au. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
- Johnson, Henry (2010). "Brushing up on Mutineers: Music with Art at Fletcher's Mutiny Cyclorama, Norfolk Island". Music in Art. 35 (1/2): 119–132. ISSN 1522-7464. JSTOR 41818611.
- Smith, Holly (2011-04-15). Sydney & Australia's New South Wales. Hunter Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-1-58843-775-4.
- Hayward, Philip (2006). Bounty Chords: Music, Dance and Cultural Heritage on Norfolk and Pitcairn Islands. Indiana University Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-86196-678-3.
- Connell, John; Aldrich, Robert (2020-09-14). The Ends of Empire: The Last Colonies Revisited. Springer Nature. p. 144. ISBN 978-981-15-5905-1.
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