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OAC Journal Museum News

A slit drum from Vanuatu

Where Taiwan Meets the World – Contemporary Museology of Oceania

30/04/2026 Members Only, Museums, V31 Issue 2

You have to travel to the southeast of the island of Taiwan, to Taitung, to see this remarkably up-to-date Museum of Prehistory. But for Oceanic arts, culture and anthropology buffs, it is very much worth the effort.

Museums Victoria Storage Facility

25/11/2023 Collections, Museums, V28 Issue 4

by Margaret Cassidy Thirty attendees of the Oceanic Art Society Forum 2023 had the good fortune to join one of three small group tours of the stored Oceanic collections housed …

Life in a Museum, Papua New Guinea style

31/08/2022 Museums, V27 Issue 3

Grace Vele, a/Chief Curator Anthropology, PNG National Museum and Art Gallery The Papua New Guinea (PNG) National Museum and Art Gallery [NMAG] is a world of its own with multiple …

Ambassadors and embassies in the new Chau Chak Wing Museum

05/03/2021 Museums, V26 Issue 1

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 …

A New Museum in Adelaide

10/09/2020 Museums, V25 Issue 3

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

OAS tour of South West France Galleries

10/12/2019 Museums, V24 Issue 4

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, …

Margaret White, of the Australian Museum

Australian Museum’s Cultural Collections Centre Opens in Western Sydney

03/09/2019 Museums, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

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 …

Oceania gallery

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

02/06/2019 Museums, V24 Issue 2

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 …

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Part V

01/11/2016 Museums, V21 Issue 5

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 …

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Part III

01/02/2016 Museums, V21 Issue 1, Volume 21

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 …

Backstrap loom with woven textile

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Part II

01/11/2015 Museums, V20 Issue 5, Volume 20

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 …

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

01/02/2015 All Journal Articles, Museums, V20 Issue 1, Volume 20

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 …

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