Arts & Culture
In Fagatogo, the Jean P. Haydon Museum preserves and presents the culture and history of American Samoa as the territory’s official repository for artifacts and cultural resource activities. Housed in a 1913 former U.S. Naval Station Tutuila commissary built of locally made rusticated concrete blocks, the building later served as Tutuila’s main post office before becoming a museum in 1971 and joining the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Emerging from plans first proposed in 1923 and shaped by Jean P. Haydon’s artifact collection, it holds objects of daily and ceremonial Samoan life alongside exhibits linking American Samoa to the Apollo program and wider Pacific history.
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