Wansolmoana - Australian Museum

Wansolmoana (meaning One Salt Ocean) is the Australian Museum's newest permanent exhibition. It opened on 13 October and explores the connections between the Pasifika peoples with the immense Pacific.

​The exhibition explores traditional navigation techniques and tools, including reading ocean currents, swells, observing the flight of certain birds, interpreting clouds, using the location of stars and the setting/rising sun and stick charts. Different models of canoes are provided from a range of cultures throughout the Pacific. The exhibition also explores patterns fo forced migration through the slave trade.

For high school teachers, this exhibition relates to the Stage 5 History topic The Ancient to the Modern World - The Asia Pacific World - Polynesian Expansion across the Pacific. The exhibitions addresses some aspects of the syallbus related to:
- How people lived in the ancient to modern world - features of society, everyday life, traditions, 
- The role of one or more significant people in a particular society
- The location and geographical features of the society
- The effect of colonisation and contact.

Explore resources from the Department of Education about the Stage 5 History topic Polynesia Expansion across the Pacific.

Read more about the exhibition here:
​https://australian.museum/exhibition/wansolmoana/