Thinking about nourishing
"We should be thinking about museums, not [to be] protecting themselves for their own historical grandeur. They should be protecting themselves to be places of intergenerational transfer, that are not sending down more trauma through the generations." (Puawai Cairns)
Rewatch the final panel on 'Healing Materialities' with Puawai Cairns (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Pūkenga) Director of Audience and Insights at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa here.
"This panel engages how ethnographic museums, with their violent histories, can, or rather must, learn to better care, by honoring the histories and ongoing aftermaths of such pain."
Check out the visual columns of the conference, that were created with contributions by all partners, in an effort to pay closer attention to the contexts that surround the objects in our museums, but also the often painful contexts that have led to how they became part of our collections, here .