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Vanuatu Cultural Centre

Vanuatu Cultural Centre
P O Box 184, Port-Vila, Vanuatu
Telephone: +678 22129 E-mail:it@vanuatuculture.org Facebook

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The Vanuatu Cultural Centre is an umbrella organization which includes:

• The National Museum of Vanuatu
• The National Film and Sound Unit
• The Vanuatu Cultural and Historical Site Survey
• The National Archives
• The National Library
• The Public Library
• The Fieldworkers's Unit
• The Tafea Cultural Centre (Lenakel, Tanna)
• The Malekula Cultural Centre
• VKS E-Press

Its aim is to record and promote the traditional indigenous cultures of Vanuatu in their various aspects - from sand drawing to music, land diving, other "customary practices" and "indigenous knowledge"-, but also the country's "contemporary arts and music".

Among its projects is the Oral Traditions Collection Project, started in 1976, which has been described as "without doubt, the Pacific's most successful grassroots cultural documentation program".

The Centre produces radio programmes and videos aimed at cultural promotion, preservation or revival. As of 1996, the centre's collection contained "approximately 2500 hours of audio tape, 2300 hours of video tape, twenty-three hours of 16-millimetre film footage, thirty hours of 8-millimetre film footage, 3000 early (up to 1950s) black-and-white photographs, and around 4000 colour slides, colour negatives and black-and-white negatives". Access to some of this material is restricted, being tabu. Some material may be accessed only by men, some only by women, and some only by members of particular indigenous cultural groups.

Archives and Libraries

National Library and National Archives of Vanuatu
Vanuatu Cultural Centre
Port-Vila, Vanuatu
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French Colonial Archives

National Archives of Overseas (ANOM)
29 chemin du moulin de Testas - CS50062
13182 Aix-en-Provence
CEDEX 5 France

Telephone: + 33 (0)4 42 93 38 50
E-mail: anom.aix@culture.gouv.fr

• 1898 to 1919 - Overseas National Archives, New Hebrides, now Vanuatu

Libraries

National Library of Vanuatu
Vanuatu Cultural Centre
Port-Vila, Vanuatu
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National Library of Vanuatu Country Paper

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National Library of New Zealand
Website: MANUSCRIPT: National Archives of Vanuatu: Genealogies of the Shepherd Islands, Vanuatu

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New Hebrides material in the British National Archives

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New Hebrides articles in the National Library of Australia

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A Celebration of Vanuatu: Vanuatu materials in the Australia National University Archives

Museums

The National Museum of Vanuatu provides much relevant historical background information.
Vanuatu Cultural Centre
P.O. Box 184
Port-Vila, Vanuatu

Telephone: +678 28064
Email: kkami@vanuatu.gov.vu
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The South Pacific WWII Museum has historical artifacts covering WWII in the Pacific.
Unity Park, Main Street
Luganville, Espíritu Santo
Vanuatu
Telephone: +678 37000
Email: info@southpacificwwiimuseum.com
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Record Offices

Records can be found at local and national civil registry offices.

Vanuatu Civil Registration and Vital Statistics
Independence Park
PMB 9054
Port Vila, Vanuatu

Telephone: +678 25303 | VoIP: 2983
Email: crvs@vanuatu.gov.vu