Learning from Pacific museologies: Heritage, culture and environment in the islands of Moana Oceania

In the South Pacific, galleries, libraries, archives, museums and heritage organisations have been transformed over the last 30 years in response to the new museology, Indigenous rights and the community demand for inclusion. The Indigenous Polynesian sense of continuity and connectedness challenges the western idea that people and things, nature and culture, past and present are separate. Rather, people are situated within a continuum of time and space and in intimate relations with the natural world. How do these distinct ways of seeing, being and doing in the islands of the South Pacific reshape museums and cultural heritage management, particularly regarding the climate crises that threaten the very existence of Indigenous culture?