taypani Engagement Program

Following the exhibition taypani milaythina-tu: Return to Country (2022-23) the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery invites the Tasmanian Aboriginal community to visit, view and engage with Ancestral cultural belongings that returned to  Lutruwita/Tasmania on loan from nine overseas institutions and Museums Victoria.

taypani milaythina-tu: Return to Country exhibited the creative works of 20 Tasmanian Aboriginal artists, responding to and alongside Ancestral cultural belongings loaned for the project.

Many works focused on next steps, including repatriation and Truth Telling, highlighting ongoing relationships between Community, Country and Ancestral belongings.

If you would like to make a time to come into the museum and visit the Ancestral belongings, please contact:fpac@tmag.tas.gov.au

Please note this program is exclusively for the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community.

First People’s Art and Culture team at TMAG caretake more than 12,000 cultural objects from Indigenous cultures across Australia and overseas, in particular Pacifika nations.

If you are a member of those communities feel welcome to make enquiries of what TMAG might hold from your culture.