Kon-Tiki Museum

It houses vessels and maps from the Kon-Tiki expedition, as well as a library with about 8,000 books.

The museum was originally built to house the Kon-Tiki, a raft of balsa wood of pre-Columbian model that Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl used to sail from Peru to Polynesia in 1947.

Heyerdahl sailed the Ra II from North Africa to the Caribbean after a previous attempt with the reed boat Ra failed.

[3] Beneath the raft is a model of the whale shark that the crew encountered on the voyage.

Since 1986, the museum has periodically repatriated items collected by Heyerdahl to Easter Island, with the most recent occurring in 2024.