In yet another major donation to the South Pacific WWII Museum, Asia-Pacific shipping giant Swire Shipping has provided the Museum with a shipping container.

You may be wondering what we will do with it?

The plan is to join it onto the back of the Museum building during our renovations and provide a doorway between it and the new museum area. It will provide vital storage space for many of our exhibits we have at other locations.

It will also free up some of the rooms in our current museum, one of which is to become our small research library.

VSA volunteer Miranda Williamson and part time museum staff member Lyn have recently completed the cataloguing of our current book collection into a new mini library database developed by Museum Project Manager James Carter.

We would like to sincerely thank Swire Shipping, in particular Pranay Srivastava, Commercial Manager – Pacific Islands and Tilly Morgan, Assistant Commercial Manager – Pacific Islands for their hard work and assistance in arranging the donation to the museum.

The container is now in Luganville and will be moved into its final resting place over the coming weeks.