Oceania

The Belau National Museum (BNM) is a non-profit semi-autonomous agency originally was established in the former Japanese Administration Weather Bureau in 1955, and is the oldest museum in Micronesia.

The Belau National Museum (BNM) is a dynamic institution for the preservation and promotion of the national heritage, exhibition of natural, cultural, social and historical values, and the development of arts at all levels.

The Belau National Museum is an institution of learning established to collect, cultural, preserve and display object of scientific, cultural, historical and aesthetic value. The Museum`s purpose is to preserve and protect the nation`s cultural heritage through collection, identification, documentation, preservation, interpretation and exhibition of specimens, artifacts and other Palauan cultural property.