Cook Islands Library and Museum

Admission	NZ$2
Hours	Monday to Friday 9am to 1pm, Saturday 9:30am to 1pm, Tuesday 4 to 8pm
Phone	26-468

Attractions on the Cook Islands are very limited, but if you want to get away from the sun and sea then visit the Cooks Islands Library and Museum. Here you can expect to find excellent examples of Cook Islands handcrafts. The museum has exhibits of a canoe from Pukapuka built in the old style, with planks lashed together; the island's first printing press (brought to Rarotonga by the London Missionary Society in the 1830s and used until the 1950s by the government printing office); and the bell and compass from the Yankee, a world-famous yacht that in 1964 wrecked on the reef behind the Beachcomber, where its forlorn skeleton rusted away for 30 years.