Bounty Museum
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Former name
Bounty Folk Museum
LocationNorfolk Island
TypeFolk museum
Key holdingsMemorabilia relating to the Bounty mutineers
Websitewww.bountymuseum.com

Bounty Museum, also Bounty Folk Museum, is the original museum on Norfolk Island, an Australian external territory in the South Pacific located 1400 km east of Byron Bay, Australia.[1]

Its collection includes archival photographs, HMAV Bounty memorabilia, Norfolk Island artifacts, stamps, paintings, convict items and medical instruments. Interpretation focuses on what life was like for the early settlers from Pitcairn Island.[2][3][4][5]

The exhibition “Captain Bligh, Myth, Man & Mutiny” also forms part of the Museum. This exhibition tells the story of Captain Bligh, challenging the Hollywood depiction of the famous mutiny on HMS Bounty.[citation needed] It features relics from the voyage and a specially built reproduction of the Bounty launch built to scale by the Maritime Museum in the UK using the original plans from the Bounty.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

Norfolk Islands only independent radio station WTF (Whisky Tango Foxtrot) 87.6 FM is owned by the Bounty Museum Trust and broadcasts from studios within the Museum.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Bounty Folk Museum | Norfolk Island, Australia & Pacific | Attractions". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  2. ^ "Bounty Folk Museum | History & Culture | Norfolk Island". www.norfolkisland.com.au. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Smith, Holly (2011-04-15). Sydney & Australia's New South Wales. Hunter Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-1-58843-775-4.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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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