Cook Islands Archives and Libraries

Archives
"The National Archives of the Cook Islands is a place where people can research on first hand-facts, primary evidence (original copies of letters, memos, reports, notes, data, photographic-still images and computer-generated records). It is a safe storage of government, historical, cultural, documented heritage and oral traditions of the nation.  Archives often provide the only source of evidence which can be used to inform us about our past."
 * Cook Islands National Archives

Contact Information: Phone: +68 2 20 725 Website Email: mocd@cookislands.gov.ck

Libraries

 * Cook Islands National Library

"The National Library – Runanga Puka holds valuable information for the people of the Cook Islands and those who seek evidence as prove of our culture and identity. The National Library has a role to collect and preserve the national collection of the Cook Islands and at the same time makes it accessible to the world.

"Our culture, history and identity have been recorded or written in book form by many. Both Cook Islanders and non Cook Islanders who wrote and did research about our country since the 1800s made it possible for our generation today to read about our history, culture and identity."

Contact Information: Phone: +68 2 20 725 Email: mocd.staff@cookislands.gov.ck phillip.tangi@cookislands.gov.ck Mobile: +682 80860

Museums
"The Cook Islands National Museum was opened on October 14th 1992 as an institution to display, educate and preserve the cultural history of the Cook Islands. We are not specifically a Museum of Art, Anthropology, Ethnology, Marine Biology or Natural History, but it is a museum with general descriptions encompassing our visual and material culture.
 * Cook Islands National Museum

"As a new museum, the collection comprises of a number of replicas, of traditional Cook Islands ethnographic materials, housed in foreign institutions. As it is our role to preserve, collect and display the material and visual culture of the Cook Islands, it is one of our main initiatives to generate and develop an appreciation of one of our most finest resources, our Cook Islands cultural heritage."

Record Offices

 * Cook Islands Ministry of Justice--Births, Deaths, and Mariages