Voyages: Stories of an Ocean People is a major exhibition that explores the stories of the people of Fiji who have a close connection to the sea. Great navigators of our maritime home, our forebears were masters of the sea. Indigenous traditional wisdom has persisted down the centuries to the present. Oceanic natives of the Pacific Islands have a history of discovering uninhabited islands by navigating unaided over great distances. This includes the early Lapita people who arrived on Fiji’s shores over 3000 years ago and the skilled iTaukei craftspeople who travelled by large ocean-going drua and navigated and traded on the vast Pacific highway. More recent migrants who came as whalers, missionaries, labourers, traders from the East and West will be highlighted alongside Girmitiyas and Pacific Island labourers. All who have made Fiji home have had an impact on the Fijian coast and way of life.