In a bid to mark Fiji’s 50th anniversary, the Fiji Museum is looking at developing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with major museums in the United Kingdom.
The agreement, should it go ahead, would be a document for knowledge exchange about historic iTaukei artefacts held in the UK.
A joint press statement from the British High Commission and Fiji Museum read an important first milestone to completing the MoU had been reached.
“With the assistance of Professor Steven Hooper of the University of East Anglia in the UK, the Fiji Museum has received offers of collaboration from the directors of the British Museum, the National Museum of Scotland, Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology and the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford,” the statement read.
“It is proposed that support will include, among other things, providing Fiji Museum with practical and professional advice as it plans the next phase of its development.”
Under the proposal, Fiji Museum staff members would provide advice and cultural information about iTaukei artefacts held in the UK.
