Heritage
Fiji Living History Museum
A walk-in 3D digital heritage experience that lets visitors explore Fiji's history through interactive exhibits, a reading room and a six-chapter virtual tour.
The problem and the approach
The Fiji Living History Museum is a browser-based 3D experience built with React Three Fiber and Three.js. Visitors walk through six themed rooms — The Grand Hub, The Dig Site, The Chief's Bure, The Crossroads, The Plantation & The Crown, and The Pacific Horizon — each presenting Fiji's story from pre-contact settlement through colonial rule to independence.
The museum includes a fully rendered reading room that works without JavaScript and an arrival screen embedding the live Fiji 3D topographic map. Every historical claim is stored with a verification status and source citation; nothing is presented as fact until reviewed.
What has been produced
- Live at fijihistory.com with six 360-degree panoramic rooms, reading room and 3D virtual tour.
- SEO package shipped — robots.txt, sitemap.xml and Open Graph metadata deployed.
- Arrival page embeds the live Fiji 3D topographic map.
- Performance pass reduced the main JS bundle from 2.5 MB to 18 KB by externalising panorama images.
Documentation can be shared for technical review on request.
What Fiji Living History Museum is not
Stated so that no reader has to infer it.
- The museum is not a registered cultural institution.
- Historical content is under ongoing review and has not been endorsed by the iTaukei Institute of Language and Culture or any government body.
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