Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in Apia, Samoa
The Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in St Helena, California, is home to over 11,000 objects and artifacts, the majority of which belonged to Stevenson. Opened in 1969, the museum houses such treasures as his childhood rocking chair, writing desk, toy soldiers, and personal writings among many other items. The museum is free to the public and serves as an academic archive for students, writers, and Stevenson enthusiasts.
Stevenson's former home in Vailima, Samoa is now a museum dedicated to the later years of his life. The museum collection includes several original items belonging to Stevenson and his family. The path to Stevenson's grave at the top of Mt Vaea commences from the museum.
Despite his stories of swashbuckling adventure, Robert Louis Stevenson had been a sickly man and had contracted tuberculosis. It was while he was in his twenties someone suggested he find a South Pacific island to live on, where the warm climate would ease his poor health. Stevenson loved to travel, once saying, I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. But it was 10 years after that advice that he and his wife sailed to the Pacific and settled in Samoa.
TB-ridden Stevenson and his family lived in Samoa for the five years prior to his death. Known to the Samoans as Tusitala or Teller of Tales, the author of the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Treasure Island and Kidnapped was intensely involved in the lives of the local folk and their plight to reclaim their cultural identity.
The Stevenson homestead is now the home for the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum. The informative forty-minute guided tour of the mansion and Tusitala’s many authentic personal belongings is highly recommended, especially of the library where he penned 14 tomes in just four years.
The beautiful Botanical Gardens at the base of Mt Vaea and surrounding the homestead make for an informative and stunning stroll.
You don’t have to be a literary groupie to enjoy the scenic walk through lush rainforest up to the top of Mt Vaea where the famous Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson rests in peace. Just outside of Apia, the panoramic views over the city and bay are will give another perspective of the capital of Samoa.
You have the choice of two routes to the top of the hill – a 45-minute track or, take the shorter but more strenuous half-hour trail. Whichever way you chose, go early in the morning or late afternoon, as the midday heat can be stifling, especially in the height of summer. This is the kind of place you won’t want to leave in a hurry, so pack a picnic and don’t forget your insect repellent and water bottle.
The words etched into Stevenson's grave read:
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, Samoa
Robert Louis Stevenson spent the last 3 years of his life in the 'Villa Vailima' in Samoa and is buried on the nearby mountain top.
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이곳 사모아에는 보물섬의 작가 로버트 루이스 스티븐슨의 박물관이 있다. 스코틀랜드 사람이었던 스티븐슨은 남태평양 여행 중 사모아를 알게 되고, 생을 마감하기 전 6년 동안 이곳 사모아에 정착해 살았다. 사모아 주민들 역시 그를 따르며 좋아했다고 한다. 이곳은 그가 살던 집을 박물관으로 보존해 놓은 곳인데 120년이 지난 지금까지도 사모아인들은 그가 쓰던 물건들을 그대로 보존하며 정성껏 보살피고 있다. 스티븐슨이란 이름은 잘 모르더라도 그가 쓴 (보물섬)과 (지킬박사와 하이드)를 모르는 사람은 없을 것이다. “이곳의 환경은 그가 책을 쓰는데 많은 영감을 주었습니다. 그래서 이곳 사모아에서 쓴 책만 3권이죠. 그 3권 모두 이곳에서 썼고 유명한 소설이 되었죠.” 그의 흔적들이 고스란히 남아 있는 서재를 둘러보다 보니 문득 스티븐슨의 보물섬은 바로 이곳 사모아가 아니었을까 하는 생각이 들었다. 서재에는 그가 쓴 저서들과 함께 그의 작품을 번역한 세계 각국의 책들이 함께 전시돼 있다. 그중에는 우리말 책도 보인다.
[English: Google Translator]
Here in Samoa there is the Museum of Treasure Island writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson, a Scottish man, learned of Samoa during his travels to the South Pacific and settled here in Samoa for six years before his death. Samoa residents also said that they liked him. It is the place where he preserved his house as a museum. Even 120 years later, Samoans are carefully caring for them. If you do not know the name Stevenson, no one will know about his (Treasure Island) and (Jekyll and Hyde). The environment here gave him a lot of inspiration to write books. So there are only three books written here in Samoa. All three of these books were written here and became famous novels. I looked around the dense library, and thought that Stevenson's Treasure Island was not Samoa right here. The library has books from around the world that have translated his work along with his books. Among them, Korean books can be seen.
[Samoa : Google Translator]
e Samoa se nofoaga o le tusitala a le Falemataaga o Island Oa Stevenson Robert Louis. Stevenson o se Sikotilani nonofo iinei ola ma aoaoina Samoa Samoa i le malaga e le Pasefika i Saute, na maliu ai le ono tausaga i luma. Samoa ma le tagata e mulimuli ia te ia foi le lelei. o le mea lea o le ua molia lenei inde seia faasaoina nei le tausaga e 120 mulimuli i le mea sseudeon Samoa sa ia tuu ma le faaeteete ina ia faasaoina ma le tausia o le fale sa nofo o se falemataaga. o Stevenson o le igoa o se tagata, e tusa lava pe e te le iloa lelei o le a le iloa ia tusia a (Island Oa) ma (Dr Jekyll ma Hyde). Na tuuina atu ia te ia siosiomaga lenei a le tele o musumusuga e tusi se tusi. Lea iinei le chaekman tusia e tolu i Samoa. O lena tolu faaaluina uma avea iinei se tala lauiloa, Sa ou mafaufau e tilotilo solo i le lua nai lo lona sailia ua tuua atoatoa faafuasei Island Oa a Stevenson eoteul le auala tonu lava o le o iinei o Samoa. ei ai se tasi lua o le lalolagi sa i ai i faaaliga ma faaliliuga o le tusi i lana galuega i le tusi na ia tusia. O nisi oi latou foi e foliga mai i tusi Korea.
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120년 전 스티븐슨이 살던 이 집은 한때 사모아 총리관저로도 사용됐다고 한다. 폐병을 앓았던 스티븐슨은 건강을 위해서 6년 동안 남태평양을 항해하던 중 사모아에 정착했다. 그는 이곳에서 친절과 깊은 이해력으로 사모아 사람들로부터 큰 신임을 얻었다고 한다. 그는 병상에서도 책을 썼는데 그가 이곳에서 마지막으로 집필한 허미스톤의 둑은 미완성으로 전해지고 있다. 묘비에는 스티븐슨이 죽기 10년 전에 직접 지었다는 진혼곡이 새겨져 있었다. 바다가 잘 내려다보이는 이곳에 그의 무덤을 마련해준 사람들은 다름 아닌 사모아의 추장들이었다.
[English: Google Translator]
Stevenson lived 120 years before the house was also once been used as a Samoan Prime Minister's residence. Stevenson went to Samoa suffered from lung disease has settled six years while trying to sail to the South Pacific to health. He gained great confidence from Samoa and people here with kindness and deep comprehension. He last wrote Hermitage banks of the Yellowstone from here that he wrote the book in an unfinished hospital beds has been handed down. The tombstone was engraved directly jieotdaneun Requiem Stevenson died 10 years ago. People who raise his grave here overlooking the sea in the well was none other than the chief Samoa.
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■클립명 : 오세아니아068-사모아01-03
■여행, 촬영, 편집, 원고 : 이상익PD (travel, filming, editing, writing : KBS TV Producer )
■촬영일자 : 2011년 6월 June
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The estate is about 10 minutes from Apia and incorporates the grand home of Robert Louis Stevenson, now restored to the same condition it was in when he and his wife lived here over a century ago.
It is also an evolving museum with a tour that takes about 40 minutes and is quite interesting.
There is a waterfall and swimming hole about 5 minutes walk away and there's also the option of hiking to the top of the neighbouring mountain where Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife Fanny are buried. The view from here takes in all of Apia and helps you understand why this great poet, novelist and travel writer chose it as his resting place for eternity.
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Samoa is an country comprising the westernmost group of the Samoan Islands, in Polynesia. Many of its islands have reef-bordered beaches and rugged, rainforested interiors with gorges and waterfalls. The islands include Upolu, home to most of Samoa's population, and Savai'i, one of the largest islands in the South Pacific. Smaller islands may have small villages or be uninhabited, some with wildlife sanctuaries.
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Robert Louis Stevenson's tomb in Vailima, Samoa.
It was a bit of a hike, but worth it. Vailima is a suburb of Apia. Taken on Monday 30/June/2014.
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Traditional Samoan dances at Robert Louis Vailima Mansion
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