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Taonga Māori Conference.
Taonga Māori Conference was a 1990 Project orchestrated by Te Roopu
Manaaki Ngā Taonga Tuku Ihu.. the Cultural Conservation Advisory Council, and unlike many international conferences which have been hosted here, Taonga Māori conference is moving through many main centres during its ten days' duration.
It can be said that the inspiration for the conference grew out of the internationally acclaimed, "Te Māori" exhibition of artefacts of the mid-eighties when kaumātua expressed comcern about Māori taonga held in overseas institutions; how are these taonga being kept spiritually warm, how can pathways be made to visit them and what contributions can be made towards their future life?
Te Roopu Manaaki Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho has taken up the challenge and invited sixteen international museologists from museums holding collections of taonga Māori. These people have come from Washington DC, British Columbia, Manchester, Paris, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Loandon, Oxford, Betlin, Leiden, Chicargo and Hamburg. In the arena also are many distinguished New Zealanders.
Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator of the National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of Main in Washington DC, is the keynote speaker.
- Kaikōrero: Adrienne Kaeppler.