Bounty Museum

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, NSW, Australia.^[1]

Bounty Museum

Former name	Bounty Folk Museum
Location	Norfolk Island
Type	Folk museum
Key holdings	Memorabilia relating to the Bounty mutineers
Website	Bounty Museum

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]}

Collections

The Bounty Museum holds the most important collection of Norfolk Island artifacts in the world.The centrepiece of the museum's collection is the 6 metre-long replica of the HMAV Bounty Launch. Other important objects include cannon balls from the wreck of the HMS Sirius's, objects relating to the islands convict days, as well as objects that record the colonial impact on the islands. This includes Norfolk Island Government Gazettes and historic photographic displays about the Pitcairn community. The museum also has a historic Norfolk Island stamp and manuscript collection and a Norfolk Island newspaper collection that stretches back over 100 years.

The Bounty Museums Radio Station

The Bounty Museum owns Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (87.6 FM) Norfolk Island a South Pacific Island radio station, broadcasting at 87.6 FM from Norfolk Island. The station is a proud member of ACMA (Australian Communication and Media Authority) and APRA AMCOS (Australasian Performing Right Association and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society).

87.6 FM Norfolk Island is financed by the Bounty Museum Trust. The stations studio is located in the foyer of the Museum. The Bounty Museums 87.6 FM broadcast licence covers the Territory of Norfolk Island located some 1400km east of the Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.

History

87.6 FM Norfolk Island signed on July 1st 2022.

The station's call letters WTF stand for "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - Whats The Frequency".

87.6 FM Norfolk Island is a radio station broadcasting a holiday format, Licensed to Norfolk Island, Australia, it serves the Territory of Norfolk Island, South Pacific. The station is owned by the Bounty Museum Trust. ^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Norfolk Island Museum
• Pitcairn Island Museum

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.

External links

• Bounty Museum Wepage
• Bounty Museum on TikTok
• Bounty Museum on Facebook

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