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Worker demolishing wall during museum renovations

Museum Renovations

In the lead up to the S.S. President Coolidge Commemoration and Exhibition on October 26, the South Pacific WWII Museum required quite a makeover to get it ready for the Coolidge exhibition.

In fact we had to remove every item in the Museum to enable us to re-dress every wall, display cabinet and some floor areas with Coolidge related items.

Large format wall posters from All About Graphics in Melbourne, Australia were brought up to Santo by museum Project Manager James Carter. They were created from images held in the United States Archives and showed the ship being evacuated, just after it hit the mines and later as it was about to go under.

“The images looked beautiful and we had them printed on a special environmentally friendly wallpaper style media”, said James. “The challenge then was to get the large format prints to Santo, which wasn’t easy given their considerable size.”

Display cases being set up in a room for old news exhibits.
With displays out, work gets underway on the Coolidge Exhibition.
Large mural of a historic ship with crowds on deck, in a room with display cases.
The large format poster from All About Graphics is in place on the north wall.
Museum exhibit with ship murals, digital displays of future museum, and a model ship.
Preparations are made to install a porthole in one of the Museum's doors.
Welcome to the S.S. President Coolidge exhibition at the museum.
Close to completion, the new displays are in place and ready to be repositioned.
Museum exhibits: historical artifacts, ship models, and display cases with documents.
Another view of the almost completed Coolidge displays.

A big thanks to our good friends at Air Vanuatu. They offered to assist with the excess luggage charges to get the posters from Australia to Santo, which the Museum was very thankful for. Now that they’re in place in the mini-museum in Luganville, they were certainly worth all the hard work.