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Teachers, former students and future graduates of the Centre des Métiers d’Art are exhibiting in Te Fare Iamanaha’s temporary exhibition hall from 24 June to 19 November 2023. After “Manava” (in 2013) and “Orama” (in 2016), Te Fare Iamanaha is delighted to welcome “HURI”, which will show how Polynesia sees and thinks itself in 2023.
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Teachers, former students and future graduates of the Centre des Métiers d’Art are exhibiting in Te Fare Iamanaha’s temporary exhibition hall from 24 June to 19 November 2023. After “Manava” (in 2013) and “Orama” (in 2016), Te Fare Iamanaha is delighted to welcome “HURI”, which will show how Polynesia sees and thinks itself in 2023.
Te Fare Iamanaha – Museum of Tahiti and her Islands’ new permanent exhibition hall will open its doors to the public on March 4, 2023. This highly anticipated event is eagerly awaited by local and international audiences, and promises visitors many surprises.
Le Musée de tahiti et des Îles propose du 15 au 18 septembre 2022 plusieurs ateliers et spectacles dans ses jardins dans le cadre des journées du patrimoine.
L’accès est gratuit, sous réserve des places disponibles.
Musée de Tahiti et des Îles – Te Fare Manaha will focus on cultural festivities. Dance, music, songs, sports and fiber arts will be explored. This event highlights the variety of our collections, from dance costumes, ethnographic objects, to photographs and paintings.
From the 6th of November 2020 to the 25th of April 2021, the Museum of Tahiti and her Islands invites you to discover our brand new exhibition: Fa’aiho ta’u tufa’a.
Fa’aiho, means “regain consciousness”, or “enlighten”. Tufa’a refers to the notion of heritage. This exhibition thus offers a reflection on the confrontation of both contemporary and antique works of art. You will have the opportunity to discover the Polynesian culture through the eyes of 22 contemporary artists as well as antique Polynesian pieces held at the Museum. Four themes were explored by the artists: Tiki-ti’i, ornaments, canoes and music. Unique pieces of artworks have been created especially for this event.
To welcome visitors during its renovation process, the Musée de Tahiti et des Îles – Te Fare Manaha will host a new exhibition, « TUPUNA ➔ TRANSIT », from 30 March 2019 to 20 September 2020.
The show will feature a hundred of objects held in the museum’s collections. These are representative of the 5 archipelagos of French Polynesia, and most of them used to be displayed in the permanent galleries, closed since 2018 due to their planned refurbishment.
An audio guide accompanies your visit of this exhibition in french, english , tahitian and japanese.
Exhibition Paul Jacoulet from September 7 to December 10, 2017 at the Museum of Tahiti and the Islands.
An exhibition designed by the Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac. A traveling artist in Micronesia or the floating universe Paul jacoulet.
The hosting of the traveling exhibition “A traveling artist in Micronesia – The floating universe of Paul Jacoulet” conceived by the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is a great opening opportunity on other Oceanian cultures and in particular the Japanese archipelago and Micronesia. The Museum of Tahiti and her Islands invites the Polynesian public to discover the subtle and refined world of Paul Jacoulet and to travel in his wake from Japan to Micronesia.
This exhibition invites you to discover the creativity of the artists who create every year the costumes for the Heiva i Tahiti, a dance competition (‘ori tahiti) which is celebrated since 1885 every year during July.The eighty-seven costumes presented in the exhibition are made out of dried plant material, most of them had been used during the Heiva, and some had been awarded with a prize for the most beautiful costume.
The 4 permanent exhibition rooms of the Museum of Tahiti invite you to discover the riches of Polynesia and its culture. The four rooms offer you a series of steps in the knowledge of the natural environment and the settlement of the islands, the material culture and the daily, social and religious life of the ancient Polynesians, as well as an evocation of the consequences of the contact with the Europeans on Polynesian society. A visit which will allow you to discover the ethnographic collections of the Museum before the closing of the rooms by the end of the year.
The Museum of Tahiti, in partnership with the Cultural center and Artistique Arioi, will propose every first Sunday of the month some cultural workshops and thematic guided tour . Come and join this unique culturel experience.
This activity, open to the Polynesian, to the families, but also to the tourist public, will allow the visitors to discover the collections of the Museum, with a guide prepared by the scientific teams of the Museum, but also to have a more participative approach of the heritage, thanks to cultural workshops, chosen according to the program of the Museum .
From January 18 to March 18, the Museum will be hosting an exhibition on the history of Air Tahiti, which celebrates 60 years of air travel. Photographs of tracks in the islands, postcards of the old models of plane until the first seaplane, old posters, objects collectors … This exhibition will return on the history of the inter-islands air links of the years 1950 to the present day.
Through this exhibition, Air Tahiti wishes to pay homage to the men of the past and to share with the greatest number an unknown history, contributing to the Polynesian collective memory.
Teachers, former students and future graduates of the Centre des Métiers d’Art are exhibiting in Te Fare Iamanaha’s temporary exhibition hall from 24 June to 19 November 2023. After “Manava” (in 2013) and “Orama” (in 2016), Te Fare Iamanaha is delighted to welcome “HURI”, which will show how Polynesia sees and thinks itself in 2023.
Te Fare Iamanaha – Museum of Tahiti and her Islands’ new permanent exhibition hall will open its doors to the public on March 4, 2023. This highly anticipated event is eagerly awaited by local and international audiences, and promises visitors many surprises.
Le Musée de tahiti et des Îles propose du 15 au 18 septembre 2022 plusieurs ateliers et spectacles dans ses jardins dans le cadre des journées du patrimoine.
L’accès est gratuit, sous réserve des places disponibles.
Musée de Tahiti et des Îles – Te Fare Manaha will focus on cultural festivities. Dance, music, songs, sports and fiber arts will be explored. This event highlights the variety of our collections, from dance costumes, ethnographic objects, to photographs and paintings.
From the 6th of November 2020 to the 25th of April 2021, the Museum of Tahiti and her Islands invites you to discover our brand new exhibition: Fa’aiho ta’u tufa’a.
Fa’aiho, means “regain consciousness”, or “enlighten”. Tufa’a refers to the notion of heritage. This exhibition thus offers a reflection on the confrontation of both contemporary and antique works of art. You will have the opportunity to discover the Polynesian culture through the eyes of 22 contemporary artists as well as antique Polynesian pieces held at the Museum. Four themes were explored by the artists: Tiki-ti’i, ornaments, canoes and music. Unique pieces of artworks have been created especially for this event.
To welcome visitors during its renovation process, the Musée de Tahiti et des Îles – Te Fare Manaha will host a new exhibition, « TUPUNA ➔ TRANSIT », from 30 March 2019 to 20 September 2020.
The show will feature a hundred of objects held in the museum’s collections. These are representative of the 5 archipelagos of French Polynesia, and most of them used to be displayed in the permanent galleries, closed since 2018 due to their planned refurbishment.
An audio guide accompanies your visit of this exhibition in french, english , tahitian and japanese.
Exhibition Paul Jacoulet from September 7 to December 10, 2017 at the Museum of Tahiti and the Islands.
An exhibition designed by the Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac. A traveling artist in Micronesia or the floating universe Paul jacoulet.
The hosting of the traveling exhibition “A traveling artist in Micronesia – The floating universe of Paul Jacoulet” conceived by the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is a great opening opportunity on other Oceanian cultures and in particular the Japanese archipelago and Micronesia. The Museum of Tahiti and her Islands invites the Polynesian public to discover the subtle and refined world of Paul Jacoulet and to travel in his wake from Japan to Micronesia.
This exhibition invites you to discover the creativity of the artists who create every year the costumes for the Heiva i Tahiti, a dance competition (‘ori tahiti) which is celebrated since 1885 every year during July.The eighty-seven costumes presented in the exhibition are made out of dried plant material, most of them had been used during the Heiva, and some had been awarded with a prize for the most beautiful costume.
The 4 permanent exhibition rooms of the Museum of Tahiti invite you to discover the riches of Polynesia and its culture. The four rooms offer you a series of steps in the knowledge of the natural environment and the settlement of the islands, the material culture and the daily, social and religious life of the ancient Polynesians, as well as an evocation of the consequences of the contact with the Europeans on Polynesian society. A visit which will allow you to discover the ethnographic collections of the Museum before the closing of the rooms by the end of the year.
The Museum of Tahiti, in partnership with the Cultural center and Artistique Arioi, will propose every first Sunday of the month some cultural workshops and thematic guided tour . Come and join this unique culturel experience.
This activity, open to the Polynesian, to the families, but also to the tourist public, will allow the visitors to discover the collections of the Museum, with a guide prepared by the scientific teams of the Museum, but also to have a more participative approach of the heritage, thanks to cultural workshops, chosen according to the program of the Museum .
From January 18 to March 18, the Museum will be hosting an exhibition on the history of Air Tahiti, which celebrates 60 years of air travel. Photographs of tracks in the islands, postcards of the old models of plane until the first seaplane, old posters, objects collectors … This exhibition will return on the history of the inter-islands air links of the years 1950 to the present day.
Through this exhibition, Air Tahiti wishes to pay homage to the men of the past and to share with the greatest number an unknown history, contributing to the Polynesian collective memory.