“Now that I’m inside the belly of the beast, I can see that there’s a lot of goodwill, but there’s also a lot of anxiety.” — Dr Safua Akeli on her work at a German museum grappling its colonial history.
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“Much of Mina McKenzie’s legacy is intangible. It exists in the way museums today work to keep taonga warm — by connecting with tangata whenua, and understanding that communities are as important as collections.” — Tanja Rother.
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“There is little or no information recording where the taonga came from, who they belonged to, who made them, what their names were, or how they were used.” — Matariki Williams on how the majority of taonga stored in collections have been separated from their stories.
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