
Symposium: Shared histories, connected futures
This event explores the entangled relationships between Aotearoa New Zealand, Germany and Sāmoa through a series of talks by museum professionals, university scholars and artists.
Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
Open every day 10am-6pm
(except Christmas Day)
Free museum entry for New Zealanders and people living in New Zealand
Find out about some of our current Pacific Cultures research projects.
This event explores the entangled relationships between Aotearoa New Zealand, Germany and Sāmoa through a series of talks by museum professionals, university scholars and artists.
This project aims to enhance museum catalogue records and develop digital maps to contextualise taonga; enhancing their visibility and improving associated biographies, which then allows communities to utilise and share these resources, as well as support museum collections and knowledge.
Research and publication of a book on the art of Pacific tapa cloth in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
A co-collecting project exploring how Pacific peoples remember their post-war migration to New Zealand to fill the labour shortages of a rapidly growing economy.
Researching and updating the 2012 publication, Tangata o le Moana – New Zealand and the people of the Pacific.
The project hypothesizes that experiences of Samoanness are spatially embedded - in landscapes, journeys, and multiple localities. They are also simultaneously, yet temporally, negotiated - through memories, narratives, and genealogies.