THE Fiji Museum celebrated International Museum Day with the official opening of the Voyageurs Exhibition on May 18.
This year, the celebratory theme is “Museums for education and research” which is a means of demonstrating how museums serve as dynamic educational institutions, fostering learning, discovery, and cultural understanding.
Fiji Museum acting director Dr Katrina Talei Igglesden said the day marked the importance of museums and the role they played in fostering interaction within communities.
“National Museum Day is really an important time all around the world, but especially in Fiji because we need to have our communities understand how important the museum can be for them,” Dr Igglesden said.
“We need to create that sense of interaction within our space.”
Established in 1904, the Fiji Museum, located at Thurston Gardens in Suva works to preserve the cultural heritage of both Fiji’s indigenous inhabitants and the other communities that have settled here over the past 200 years.
