Fault Lines: Imagining Indigenous futures for colonial collections
Li Ka Shing Gallery
6 December 2024 - 21 December 2025
Museums are sites of both historic fracture and future possibility. Through interventions with historic objects, artistic responses, and new research, this exciting new exhibition asks how we might cultivate relationships between Indigenous communities and museums around the care of colonial-era collections.
Enotie Ogbebor: From Eden to Ecocide: A Tale of Human Impact
Andrews Gallery
As part of the project TAKING CARE - Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care a new installation by multidisciplinary artist Enotie Ogbebor is being exhibited amongst existing MAA displays, linking contemporary life with ethnographic collections.
Triptych titled ‘From Eden to Ecocide: A Tale of Human Impact’, 2023 by Enotie Ogbebor. MAA 2023.18.1-3.
Contemporary Gweagal spears by Rod Mason
Maudslay Gallery
In dialogue with the new display of Kamay spears now open at the Chau Chak Wing Museum in Sydney, a new display is now open at MAA of three contemporary spears, made by Senior Elder of the Gweagla Clan, Dharawal Nation, Rod Mason.
Pacific Currents: New Displays from Oceania in the World Anthropology Gallery
Andrews Gallery
Pacific Currents showcases MAA’s exceptional and wide-ranging Oceanic collections, which originate from throughout the Pacific and date from the late 18th century to the present day.
Online Exhibitions
Digital Lab
The Digital Lab hosts digital versions of past and present exhibitions at MAA, as well as digitally born exhibitions on the collections in MAA’s care and associated projects such as artist residencies, digitisation of collections, and community outreach projects.
A group of women performing waiata (song), Tūrangawaewae Marae, New Zealand. Photographer: Axel Poignant, 1969. MAA T.150590.RPT.
Exhibition proposals
If you wish to propose an exhibition, please send a brief email to a member of the curatorial team in the first instance; indicating scope, content and potential sources of funding. Please note that our schedules are generally booked several years in advance.
