Vanuatu Archives and Libraries


 * Archives collect and preserve original documents of organizations such as churches or governments. Libraries generally collect published sources such as books, maps, and microfilm.
 * If you plan to visit a repository, contact them and ask for information about their collection, hours, services, and fees. Ask if they require you to have a reader’s ticket (a paper indicating you are a responsible researcher) to view the records, and ask how to obtain one.
 * Although the records you need may be in an archive or library, the FamilySearch Library may have microfilmed and/or digitized copies of them.

Vanuatu Cultural Centre
The Vanuatu Cultural Centre is an umbrella organization which includes: 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".
 * 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

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 Facebook

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 Facebook National Library of Vanuatu Country Paper

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

New Hebrides material in the British National Archives

New Hebrides articles in the National Library of Australia 

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 Facebook

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 Website

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: [mailto:crvs@vanuatu.gov.vu crvs@vanuatu.gov.vu]