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{{Infobox museum
| name            = Musée de Tahiti et des Îles
| logo            =
| image           = Musée de Tahiti et des Îles.JPG
| map_type        = Tahiti
| former_name     =
| established     = {{Start date|1974}}
| location        = [[Puna'auia]], [[Tahiti]]
| type            = [[Ethnographic museum]]
| website         = {{URL|www.museetahiti.pf/}}
| leader_type     = Director
| leader          = [[Miriama Bono]]
}}
The '''Musée de Tahiti et des Îles''' ("Museum of Tahiti and the Islands"), [[Tahitian language|Tahitian]] '''Te Fare Manaha''' ("the Museum"), is the national museum of French Polynesia, located in [[Puna'auia]], [[Tahiti]].
== History ==
The museum established a library in 1980.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last1=Aymonin|first1=David|last2=Heutte|first2=Isabelle|date=2015|title=Resources for Research in French Polynesia and New Caledonia|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/contemporary_pacific/v027/27.2.aymonin.html|journal=The Contemporary Pacific|language=en|volume=27|issue=2|pages=465–484|doi=10.1353/cp.2015.0052|hdl=10125/42542|s2cid=162815658 |issn=1527-9464|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
In 2016 [[Photovoltaics|photovoltaic panels]] were installed on the roof of museum in order to generate its own electricity supply.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2021-10-26|title=Rénovation du Musée de Tahiti et des îles : les esquisses dévoilées|url=https://www.tahiti-infos.com/Renovation-du-Musee-de-Tahiti-et-des-iles-les-esquisses-devoilees_a164014.html|access-date=2021-10-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026161725/https://www.tahiti-infos.com/Renovation-du-Musee-de-Tahiti-et-des-iles-les-esquisses-devoilees_a164014.html|archive-date=2021-10-26}}</ref> In 2017 plans for renovation and redesign of the museum, drawn up by the architect Pierre-Jean Picart ([[:fr:Pierre-Jean Picart|fr]]), were approved.<ref name=":0" /> The museum closed to the public in 2019 and is due to re-open in August 2022 with re-developed galleries.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|date=2021-09-23|title=Costume de deuilleur, statue A'a et autres objets emblématiques du patrimoi|url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/polynesie/costume-de-deuilleur-statue-a-a-et-autres-objets-emblematiques-du-patrimoine-bientot-de-retour-a-tahiti-1104610.html|access-date=2021-10-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210923062046/https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/polynesie/costume-de-deuilleur-statue-a-a-et-autres-objets-emblematiques-du-patrimoine-bientot-de-retour-a-tahiti-1104610.html|archive-date=2021-09-23}}</ref>
== Engagement ==
In 2021 the museum opened the temporary Tahiti ti'a Mai exhibition, which focussed on Tahitian celebrations, due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in French Polynesia|COVID-19 pandemic]] ran digital workshops which engaged with over 3000 visitors.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-10-26|title=Une première édition numérique pour le Musée de Tahiti et des îles {{!}} La Dépêche de Tahiti|url=https://actu.fr/loisirs-culture/une-premiere-edition-numerique-pour-le-musee-de-tahiti-et-des-iles_45077858.html|access-date=2021-10-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026160801/https://actu.fr/loisirs-culture/une-premiere-edition-numerique-pour-le-musee-de-tahiti-et-des-iles_45077858.html|archive-date=2021-10-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Exposition Tahiti ti'a mai au Musée de Tahiti et des îles|url=https://www.heiva.org/fr/exposition-tahiti-tia-mai-au-musee-de-tahiti-et-des-iles/|access-date=2021-10-26|website=Heiva i Tahiti|language=fr-FR}}</ref> The museum has curated displays of objects at [[Faa'a International Airport|Tahiti's airport]].<ref name=":2" />
Leading up to its opening in 2018 museum staff were part of a team that co-curated the [[British Museum]] exhibition ''Reimagining Captain Cook: Pacific Perspectives''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=McLaren|first1=Annemarie|last2=Clark|first2=Alison|date=2020-07-02|title=Captain Cook upon Changing Seas: Indigenous Voices and Reimagining at the British Museum|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2019.1663390|journal=The Journal of Pacific History|volume=55|issue=3|pages=418–431|doi=10.1080/00223344.2019.1663390|s2cid=211654520|issn=0022-3344}}</ref>
== Collection ==
The collection includes: objects that reflect the natural world, including a herbarium;<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Dotte-Sarout|first1=Emilie|last2=Kahn|first2=Jennifer G.|date=2017-11-01|title=Ancient woodlands of Polynesia: A pilot anthracological study on Maupiti Island, French Polynesia|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618216305560|journal=Quaternary International|series=Anthracology: Local to Global Significance of Charcoal Science - Part I|language=en|volume=457|pages=6–28|doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2016.10.032|bibcode=2017QuInt.457....6D|issn=1040-6182}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Girardi|first1=Cynthia|last2=Butaud|first2=Jean François|last3=Ollier|first3=Corinne|last4=Ingert|first4=Nicolas|last5=Weniger|first5=Bernard|last6=Raharivelomanana|first6=Phila|last7=Moretti|first7=Christian|date=2015-02-23|title=Herbal medicine in the Marquesas Islands|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378874114007004|journal=Journal of Ethnopharmacology|language=en|volume=161|pages=200–213|doi=10.1016/j.jep.2014.09.045|pmid=25527315|issn=0378-8741}}</ref> life prior to European colonisation, and life post-colonization.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Musée de Tahiti et des Îles {{!}} French Polynesia Attractions|url=https://www.lonelyplanet.com/french-polynesia/west-coast/attractions/musee-de-tahiti-et-des-iles/a/poi-sig/441246/1332109|access-date=2021-10-29|website=Lonely Planet|language=en}}</ref> Significant objects in the collection include: a portrait of [[Pōmare IV]] painted by [[Charles Giraud]];<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fayaud|first=Viviane|date=2006-01-01|title=A Tahitian Woman in Majesty French Images of Queen Pomare|url=https://doi.org/10.2104/ha060012|journal=History Australia|volume=3|issue=1|pages=12.1–12.6|doi=10.2104/ha060012|s2cid=143839491|issn=1449-0854}}</ref> a Mangarevan coconut-log mask;<ref>{{Cite journal|last=LUOMALA|first=KATHARINE|date=1977|title=Post-European Central Polynesian Head Masks and Puppet-Marionette Heads|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42927953|journal=Asian Perspectives|volume=20|issue=1|pages=130–171|jstor=42927953|issn=0066-8435}}</ref> historic examples of [[Tapa cloth|tapa]];<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Seelenfreund|first1=Andrea|last2=Sepúlveda|first2=Marcela|last3=Petchey|first3=Fiona|last4=Peña-Ahumada|first4=Barbara|last5=Payacán|first5=Claudia|last6=Gutiérrez|first6=Sebastián|last7=Cárcamo|first7=José|last8=Kardailsky|first8=Olga|last9=Moncada|first9=Ximena|last10=Rojas|first10=Ana María|last11=Moraga|first11=Mauricio|date=2016-12-01|title=Characterization of an archaeological decorated bark cloth from Agakauitai Island, Gambier archipelago, French Polynesia|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440316301625|journal=Journal of Archaeological Science|language=en|volume=76|pages=56–69|doi=10.1016/j.jas.2016.10.008|issn=0305-4403}}</ref> adzes and coconut pounders;<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=Michelle J.|last2=Günther|first2=Jasmin|date=2019-09-12|title=The Past, Present and Future Values of the Polynesian Stone Adzes and Pounders Collected on the Pandora|journal=Bulletin of the History of Archaeology|language=en|volume=29|issue=1|pages=4|doi=10.5334/bha-622|s2cid=203509955|issn=2047-6930|doi-access=free|hdl=1885/294431|hdl-access=free}}</ref> [[breadfruit]] tools;<ref>ANTONI, J. & FALCHETTO, A. (2019): [http://www.ace.hu/am/2019_2/AM-2019-2-AJ.pdf Knife in the wall: three examples of a rare tool-form on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, Eastern Polynesia], Archeometriai Műhely XVI/2 127-134.</ref> amongst others. The collection also includes objects originally collected by missionary [[George Bennet (missionary)|George Bennet]] that have since been returned to Tahiti.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jacobs|first=K.|date=2014-01-22|title=Inscribing missionary impact in Central Polynesia: mapping the George Bennet collection (1821-1824)|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fht038|journal=Journal of the History of Collections|volume=26|issue=2|pages=263–276|doi=10.1093/jhc/fht038|issn=0954-6650}}</ref>
=== Gallery ===
<gallery>
File:Human image, tuff, Society Islands, Musée de Tahiti et des Îles.JPG|Human image, tuff, Society Islands, Musée de Tahiti et des Îles
File:Portrait of Queen Pomare IV of Tahiti, Charles Giraud, 1851, Musée de Tahiti et des Îles.jpg|Portrait of Queen Pomare IV of Tahiti, Charles Giraud, 1851, Musée de Tahiti et des Îles
File:FP-tahiti-museum-03.jpg|Displays at the museum, prior to renovation in 2017.
File:FP-tahiti-museum-01.jpg|Museum display, prior to renovation in 2017.
</gallery>
=== Repatriation and loans ===
[[File:Wooden figure of A'a British Museum (2082156178).jpg|thumb|British Museum]]
In September 2019 the Director of the [[Musée du quai Branly]], [[Emmanuel Kasarhérou]], and the Minister for Culture in Polynesia, [[Heremoana Maamaatuaiahutapu]], and the Director of Musée de Tahiti et des Îles, [[Miriama Bono]], signed an agreement to ensure the return to Tahiti of the [[Maro'ura]] - a fragment of a chiefly belt made of tapa, that was born by chiefs and is considered a sacred object.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-10-29|title=Polynesia: The "Maro'ura", the centerpiece of an exhibition on Polynesian royal objects at the Quai Branly|url=https://new.in-24.com/entertainment/News/165376.html|access-date=2021-10-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029203039/https://new.in-24.com/entertainment/News/165376.html|archive-date=2021-10-29}}</ref> The Maro'ura was worn by Tahitian king [[Pōmare I|Pōmare]], whose appearance with it was described by James Cook in 1767. Legally the Maro'ura will be loaned to the museum on a three-year renewable agreement, as, according to Bono, since "as we are a French, we cannot ask France to repatriate something back to France."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Srinivasan|first=Prianka|date=20 December 2019|title=Calls for museum to repatriate indigenous objects, as sacred Maro 'Ura to return to Tahiti|website=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |url=https://www.abc.net.au/radio-australia/programs/pacificbeat/sacred-maro-ura-belt-to-return-to-tahiti-from-paris/11817178|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004144104/https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/programs/pacificbeat/sacred-maro-ura-belt-to-return-to-tahiti-from-paris/11817178 |archive-date=4 October 2022}}</ref> Other objects that will also be loaned include a To'o mata and a Taavaha from the Marquesas Islands and a penu.<ref name=":3" />
The museum has also requested the loan of objects from the [[British Museum]] and the [[Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge|Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge]].<ref name=":0" /> Objects loaned from Cambridge will include objects collected by missionary George Bennet, including Tahitian pearl earrings, a fly swatter, a drum and a tattoo set.<ref name=":3" /> Objects due to be loaned from the British Museum include a chief's belt of Anaa, a taumi of the Society, a statue of Rongo des Gambier and the [[statue of A'a from Rurutu]].<ref name=":3" />
==== Gallery of objects in overseas collections ====
<gallery>
File:Display of objects from Tahiti, Otago Museum, 2016-01-29.jpg|Objects in [[Otago Museum]]
File:Chief mourner's costume, Tahiti, Society Islands, Bishop Museum, 1971.198.001a-f.JPG|Chief mourner's costume, Tahiti, Society Islands, [[Bishop Museum]]
File:National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka - Fishhook (replica) - Tahiti Islands in French Polynesia - Made by Tetuira Roger in 1985.jpg|Fishhook, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
File:Tahiti-Oro.jpg|A sacred god figure wrapping for the war god 'Oro, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
</gallery>
== Former directors ==
* [[Jean-Marc Pambrun]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-10-29|title=Musée de Tahiti et des îles {{!}} Punaauia|url=https://www.punaauia.pf/mus%C3%A9e-de-tahiti-et-des-%C3%AEles|access-date=2021-10-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029211224/https://www.punaauia.pf/mus%C3%A9e-de-tahiti-et-des-%C3%AEles|archive-date=2021-10-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gonschor|first=Lorenz|date=2012|title=French Polynesia|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/contemporary_pacific/v024/24.1.gonschor.html|journal=The Contemporary Pacific|language=en|volume=24|issue=1|pages=171–184|doi=10.1353/cp.2012.0012|s2cid=258057468 |issn=1527-9464}}</ref>
* [[Anne Lavondes]]<ref name=":1" />
* [[Manouche Lehartel]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A8XQuU3lT7EC&dq=tahiti+museum&pg=PA93|title=Anthropologica|date=2000|publisher=Canadian Anthropology Society|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Théano Jaillet]] (2011 - 2016)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tahiti-infos.com/Theano-Jaillet-la-directrice-du-Musee-de-Tahiti-et-des-iles-dresse-le-bilan-avant-son-depart_a156383.html |title=Théano Jaillet, la directrice du Musée de Tahiti et des îles, dresse le bilan avant son départ  |publisher=Tahiti Infos |language=fr |date=30 December 2016 |access-date=8 May 2023}}</ref>
* [[Miriama Bono]] (2017–2023)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tahiti-infos.com/Miriama-Bono-aux-commandes-du-Musee-de-Tahiti-et-des-iles_a158637.html |title=Miriama Bono aux commandes du Musée de Tahiti et des îles |publisher=Tahiti Infos |language=fr |date=7 March 2017 |access-date=8 May 2023}}</ref>
* Hinanui Cauchois (2023-present)<ref>{{Cite web |last=K |first=M. |date=2023-11-29 |title=Musée de Tahiti et des iles : Hinanui Cauchois nommée par intérim après le départ de Miriama Bono |url=https://www.tntv.pf/tntvnews/polynesie/culture/musee-de-tahiti-et-des-iles-hinanui-cauchois-nommee-par-interim-apres-le-depart-de-miriama-bono/ |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=TNTV Tahiti Nui Télévision |language=fr-FR}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.museetahiti.pf/ Official site] {{in lang|fr}}
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYEZW1B9x-E The Tahiti Ti'a Mai exhibition at the Museum of Tahiti and the Islands]
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