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OAC Journal Museum News

Ambassadors and embassies in the new Chau Chak Wing Museum

05/03/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

by Matt Poll Image: Djon Mundine OAM. The easiest way I could describe the Ambassadors exhibition is that I am using the protocols of an acknowledgement of country as a framework for engaging with both the collection objects and the people who generously gave their time to work with me throughout this new exhibition’s development at the […]

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Filed Under: Members Only, Museums, V26 Issue 1

A New Museum in Adelaide

10/09/2020 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Read Barry Craig’s account of the Pacific collection at the new Wantok Place Museum in North Adelaide.

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Filed Under: Members Only, Museums, V25 Issue 3

OAS tour of South West France Galleries

10/12/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Pre-2020 Parcours des Mondes If enough members are interested in viewing the Oceanic Art collections from early French navigators and collectors, the Oceanic Art Society, under the direction of Pierre Laffont, proposes to organize a tour in the South West of France in the 4 days preceding the opening of the September 2020 Parcours des Mondes in Paris. […]

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Filed Under: Members Only, Museums, V24 Issue 4

Australian Museum’s Cultural Collections Centre Opens in Western Sydney

03/09/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Margaret White, of the Australian Museum

By Bill Rathmell, OAS President Half-a-dozen members of the Oceanic Art Society were present on 30th July at the opening of the “Cultural Collections Centre”- the new storage for the bulk of the Pacific Island collections of Sydney’s Australian Museum. Since its inception in 1995, the OAS has tried to lobby for this superb world-renowned […]

Filed Under: Museums, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

Expanding the Visual Canon: Fifty years of Oceanic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1969-2019)

02/06/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Oceania gallery

By Maia Nuku The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of Oceanic art includes over two thousand works of art from the Pacific: ancestral treasures handed down across the generations that were created in islands and archipelagoes that extend across a vast expanse of ocean. Highlights of the collection include the landmark architectural installation or ‘Kwoma […]

Filed Under: Museums, V24 Issue 2

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Part V

01/11/2016 By Barry Craig

By Barry Craig.  Continued from OAS Journal Vol.21 No.3. In this issue of the OAS Journal, I provide a short biography and a sample of the collections of: Walter Mansell Balfour Ogilvy and Harry Lort Spencer Balfour Ogilvy The two Ogilvy brothers from Renmark will be considered together but as Parts 5, 6. They both […]

Filed Under: Museums, V21 Issue 5

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Part III

01/02/2016 By Barry Craig

Hunter was born in Adelaide in 1871 and served three years in the South Australian Infantry during the Boer War (1899-1902). He married in 1905 and was an accountant at the time of enlistment in the AN&MEF in October 1914. He was immediately given the rank of Sergeant, promoted to Lieutenant a year later and […]

Filed Under: Museums, V21 Issue 1, Volume 21

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Part II

01/11/2015 By Barry Craig

Backstrap loom with woven textile

By Barry Craig. Continued from the last edition of the OAS Journal In a previous issue of the OAS Newsletter, I provided an introduction to the WW1 military collectors and the collections of things that came to the South Australian Museum. In this issue I provide a sample of the biography and collections of Arnold […]

Filed Under: Museums, V20 Issue 5, Volume 20

Discovering Worlds: transforming the Pacific displays at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum

01/02/2015 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

By Tony Eccles The Royal Albert Memorial Museum is an award-winning[1] local authority-run museum which is based in the city of Exeter, in Devon. The acquisition of ethnographic items started as early as 1865 when the museum was being built. In 1998 it received designation status.[2] The collection numbers some 12,000 items from Africa, the […]

Filed Under: All Journal Articles, Museums, V20 Issue 1, Volume 20

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