Musée de Tahiti et des Îles

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Musée de Tahiti et des Îles

The Musée de Tahiti et des Îles ( Tahitian : Te Fare Manaha ) is a museum of Polynesian antiquities, history and natural history founded in 1974 and based in Punaauia in Tahiti in French Polynesia .

collection

The museum houses the Ethnology Museum , a ethnological collection, as Natural History Museum , a ornithological collection, plus a herbarium , a malacological and conchologische collection of molluscs and shells as well as the Museum of History and Art Museum and since 2004 a collection of historic photographs. In addition to information on the geology and geography of Tahiti, monumental stone statues of Tahiti, the Marquesas and Raivavae are on display, as well as weapons, ritual objects and handicrafts.

The collection includes more than 30,000 objects, including around 15,000 plants from French Polynesia, 11,500 ethnographic and 5,500 art objects.

In October 2010, the collection of the Société des Etudes Océaniennes (SEO) was integrated into the museum.

The director of the museum was Jean-Marc Pambrun (1953–2011) until his death .

  • Portrait of Queen Pomaré IV of Tahiti, Charles Giraud , 1851

  • Statue, Marquesas, tufa

  • Petroglyph stone, Raivavae, Austral Islands, tufa

cooperation

In December 2005, the museum entered into a cooperation with the Musée du quai Branly in Paris for joint exhibition projects.

Web links

Commons : Musée de Tahiti et des Îles  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fare manaha means in the Tahitian Museum according to the dictionary ( memento of the original from April 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.farevanaa.pf
  2. ↑ L'Herbier de Polynésie, à la découverte de la flore polynésienne. In: Hiro'a: journal d'informations culturelles. January 2011 . Retrieved September 17, 2011.
  3. ↑ A la découverte des objets du Musée de Tahiti et des Îles et de leur histoire. In: Hiro'a. November 2008.
  4. ↑ La collection d'objets de la Société des Etudes Océaniennes affectée au Musée de Tahiti des Îles. In: Hiro'a. December 2010. Retrieved September 17, 2011.
  5. ↑ Homage to Jean-Marc Pambrun. In: Hiro'a. March 2011 . Retrieved September 17, 2011.
  6. ↑ La coopération territoriale. In: Musée du quai Branly: Rapport d'activité. 2006, p. 72. (PDF; 2.9 MB) Retrieved September 17, 2011.
  7. ^ Développement de la coopération du musée du quai Branly avec la Polynésie française.
  8. ↑ Musée du quai Branly: Exposition Va'a, la pirogue polynésienne.

Coordinates: 17 ° 37 ′ 56.3 ″  S , 149 ° 36 ′ 50 ″  W.