Museum Of Samoa — Attraction in Upolu

Museum is in a very nice modern building. That is where the positives end. There is no admission fee, but the staff hovered over us telling us to donate until we put ‘enough’ Tala in. This is not a museum of Samoa, there is next to no history of Samoa told here, and what is has no context. For a country with such a strong and proud culture, it was super disappointing to see this not told; especially as there are no other museums in the country to fill this void. The building is a beautiful but almost entirely empty space, with three small rooms of exhibitions of...

We visited around April 2025 On arrival the nice lady that greeted us was polite and explained where to go and what to do, while having a look around my son who is autistic was starting to cry and so another rude women who worked there aggressively said that we are making too much noise and we need to be quiet. If you’re going to work in a place where you need to communicate with people, then work on your people skills because that is not how you approach people. There isn’t much to see here anyway so don’t waste your time. The toilets were also all...

There are 3 rooms dedicated to the Museum of Samoa. The rest is for the college and archives, I was told. It was ok for what was there. It was 10 Talla to get in. I was lost at first because I saw a ticket booth but no one there. So I wandered around for a bit until someone found me and directed me where to go. Not a lot on ancient history. I found it interesting to learn how senit was made. If interested in ancient history, museums in Hawaii have more information for the...