Installation at Barcelona

In January Pacific Presences team member Julie couriered a number of loan objects from the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to Barcelona for an exciting new collaborative project described by project lead Nicholas Thomas:

Nicholas Thomas at the opening

The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology holds extraordinarily rich collections from around the world, and especially from the Pacific. We have many outstanding works of art and artefacts that the relatively small galleries in the historic museum buildings don’t permit us to display.

The MAA objects on display

So the Museum regularly lends to major exhibitions in various parts of the world. Our collaboration with the dynamic new Museu de Cultures del Món in Barcelona is still more important – while they have remarkable collections from New Guinea and Australia, they hold little from Polynesia. Through a medium-term loan we are enabling the Museum to present a wider range of art from the Pacific, and giving the hundreds of thousands of visitors the Museum is likely to have in the next few years a chance to see great works that would otherwise be in store in Cambridge.

The Museum