menuUncovering Pacific Pasts
List of participating institutions
- Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
Topic: Stephenson Percy Smith, founder of the Polynesian Society
Exhibition dates: March–August 2020
- Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Auckland, New Zealand
Topic: Roger Curtis Green and the prehistory of Near and Remote Oceania, and Jack Golson and the beginning of professional archaeology in New Zealand
Exhibition dates: February–May 2020
- Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
Topic: Looking beyond Australia’s shores in the 1930s: F.D. McCarthy in Southeast Asia
It did not prove possible to mount an exhibition at the Australian Museum.
- Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Topic: The contributions of John F.G. Stokes to the field of Hawaiian archaeology
Exhibition dates: March 2020 – March 2021
- British Museum, London, UK
Topic: Conus shell valuables from Wanigela, Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea
Exhibition dates: March 2020 – ongoing
- Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Topic: Surveys of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea in 1966–67 by University of Washington anthropologists
Exhibition dates: March and September–November 2020
Website: www.burkemuseum.org/news/archaeology-mini-exhibit-uncovering-pacific-pasts
- Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand
Topic: Sir Julius von Haast, Roger Duff and stone artefacts in New Zealand archaeology
It did not prove possible to mount an exhibition at the Canterbury Museum.
- Ethnological Museum Anima Mundi – People, Arts and Cultures, Vatican Museums, Vatican City State
Topic: Father Wilhelm Schmidt, Indigenous beliefs and Oceanic collections in the Vatican’s Anima Mundi Museum
Exhibition dates: May 2021 – ongoing
Objects featured as part of the Uncovering Pacific Pasts exhibition are now permanently on display.
- Etnografiska Museet/Museum of Ethnography, National Museums of World Culture, Stockholm, Sweden
Topic: Hjalmar Stolpe, ethnographer to the Vanadis Expedition, 1883–85
Exhibition dates: March 2020 – September 2021
- Fiji Museum, Suva, Fiji
Topic: Two archaeological pioneers of the Fijian Administration: Ratu Rabici Logavatu and Aubrey Parke
The Fiji Museum is planning to redisplay its archaeological collections once the COVID crisis there passes, and will incorporate Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific research into Rabici and Parke, as well as Parke’s artefacts repatriated to Fiji by The Australian National University.
- Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Topic: Reverend Dr George Turner and missionary archaeology in Vanuatu
Exhibition dates: September–November 2020
- Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo, Norway
Topic: Thor Heyerdahl and the Norwegian archaeological expedition to Rapa Nui/Easter Island and the East Pacific, 1955–56
Exhibition dates: July–September 2020 and July–September 2021
- Mana Gallery, Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui/Easter Island, Chile
Topic: Katherine Routledge, Juan Tepano and the Mana Expedition to Rapa Nui/Easter Island, 1913–15
Objects related to the Uncovering Pacific Pasts exhibition were planned for display at the Mana Gallery in November 2020. However, the global pandemic forced closure of Rapa Nui/Easter Island to all tourism and travel. A new date will be set.
- Melbourne Museum, Museums Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Topic: Lapita pottery in the Melbourne Museum collection
It did not prove possible to mount an exhibition at the Melbourne Museum.
- Menzies Library, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Topic: Pacific archaeology at The Australian National University, 1961–79
Exhibition dates: March 2020 – January 2021
- Musée de Tahiti et des Îles – Te Fare Manaha, Puna‘auia, Tahiti, French Polynesia
Topic: Aurora Natua and the Motu Paeao site: Unlocking French Polynesia’s islands for Pacific archaeologists
Exhibition dates: September 2020
Website: www.hiroa.pf/2020/04/hiroa-n151-culture-bouge-larcheologie-a-lhonneur/
- Museo Antropológico P. Sebastián Englert (Museo de Rapa Nui), Rapa Nui/Easter Island, Chile
Topic: Juan Tepano Rano, Rapanui expert and collaborator with visiting archaeologists
It did not prove possible to mount an exhibition at the Museo Antropológico P. Sebastián Englert (Museo de Rapa Nui).
- Museum am Rothenbaum – Cultures and Arts of the World (MARKK), Hamburg, Germany
Topic: Paul Hambruch, the Hamburg South Seas Expedition (1908–10), and the ceremonial complex of Nan Madol on Pohnpei, Micronesia
Exhibition dates: March 2020 – August 2021
Website: www.instagram.com/p/B91pRQxKMvb/
- Museum of Anthropology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Topic: Hawaiian artefacts in Russian collections: Urey Lisiansky, Alexandra Corsini and the mystery of the Moscow ki‘i
It did not prove possible to mount an exhibition at the Museum of Anthropology, Moscow State University.
- Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Topic: A.C. Haddon and the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Strait
Exhibition dates: March 2020 – December 2022
- Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville, Australia
Topic: Polynesian stone adzes excavated from the wreck of HMS Pandora (1791)
Exhibition dates: April 2020 – November 2022
Website: blog.qm.qld.gov.au/2020/03/02/uncovering-pacific-pasts-histories-in-archaeology/
- Museums and Special Collections, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Topic: Material culture from Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu, brought to Aberdeen by missionary Frederick Gatherer Bowie and drawn into wider theories of prehistoric migration
Exhibition dates: March 2020 – ongoing
- National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Topic: The Papuan Official Collection and the shared colonial history of Papua New Guinea and Australia
Exhibition dates: February–July 2020
- Natural History Museum, La Rochelle, France
Topic: The collections of Gustave Glaumont, pioneering archaeologist of Melanesia
An online exhibition featuring objects from the collections of the Natural History Museum, La Rochelle, was launched in July 2020.
Website: museum.larochelle.fr/au-dela-de-la-visite/autour-des-expositions/une/exposition-virtuelle-284
- Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria (joint exhibition with Weltmuseum, Vienna, Austria)
Topic: Rudolf Pöch’s 1905 excavations in Wanigela, Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea
Exhibition dates: March 2020 – ongoing
- Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand
Topic: Henry Devenish Skinner’s adze classification as a contribution to Pacific archaeology
Exhibition dates: February–July 2020
- Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Topic: Sue Bulmer and New Guinea archaeology
Exhibition dates: April 2020
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Topic: How early Harvard scholars influenced the development of anthropology and archaeology in the Pacific region
Exhibition dates: March 2020 – March 2021
- Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Topic: Lapita pottery fragments from Berkeley archaeologist Edward Gifford’s 1947 expedition to Fiji
Exhibition dates: February–March 2020
Website: hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/exhibit/uncovering-pacific-pasts/
- Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum – Cultures of the World, Cologne, Germany
Topic: Lapita potsherds found on Watom Island by missionary ethnographer Father Otto Meyer MSC
Exhibition dates: March–August 2020
- Reid Library, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Topic: The archives of François Péron, the first official expedition anthropologist in Oceania
Exhibition dates: March–December 2020
- Royal Geographical Society, London, UK
Topic: Katherine Routledge and the Mana Expedition to Rapa Nui/Easter Island, 1913–15
Objects related to the Uncovering Pacific Pasts exhibition were planned for display at the Royal Geographical Society in March 2020. However, the global pandemic forced its closure for an extended period. A new date will be set.
- Solomon Islands National Museum, Honiara, Solomon Islands
Topic: Visible traces of past human activities: polished stone adze traditionally manufactured in Solomon Islands
Exhibition dates: September 2020 – ongoing
- South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia
Topic: Norman Tindale on the ancient migration of people into the Pacific
Exhibition dates: March 2020 – August 2021
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Topic: W.H. Davenport’s 1966 archaeological expedition to Santa Ana, Solomon Islands
Exhibition dates: August 2020 – December 2021
- University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Topic: The University of Sydney and Pacific archaeology from the 1890s to the present
Exhibition dates: March 2020 – ongoing
This poster exhibition was launched in the University of Sydney main quadrangle in March 2020.
- Vanuatu Cultural Centre/Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta (VKS), Port Vila, Vanuatu
Topic: The History of Vanuatu archaeology, Part I to WWII
Exhibition dates: November 2020 – November 2021
This poster exhibition was displayed at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre/Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta (VKS) from November 2020 to November 2021. A second part, ‘The History of Vanuatu Archaeology, Part II: After WWII’, will open early in 2023. A French version of the poster exhibition was launched in February 2022.
- Weltmuseum, Vienna, Austria (joint exhibition with Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria)
Topic: Rudolf Pöch’s 1905 excavations in Wanigela, Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea
Dates: March 2020 – ongoing
Website: www.weltmuseumwien.at/en/exhibitions/galleries-of-marvel/#uncovering-pacific-pasts
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