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The Public Museums and Art Galleries Ordinance was created in 1956 established the Papua New Guinea Public Museum and Art Gallery. [ 1 ] The museum collections were initially housed in disused government buildings, and in 1960 they moved to an old hospital.
The entrance to the Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery. ... This is a list of museums in Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery;
The Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery was later opened in 1977 to combat this phenomenon. [10] Despite the removal of many artifacts, the actual indigenous methods of art themselves survived and continued to be practiced by natives, somewhat unaffected by the European colonization of the islands. [5]
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Joe Nalo (born 1951) is an artist from Papua New Guinea. [1] Nalo is a painter, printmaker, art teacher and curator. [2] He was the first curator for contemporary art at the National Museum and Art Gallery of Papua New Guinea. [3] Nalo has been described in the journal Pacific Arts as "one of the best contemporary artists" in Papua New Guinea. [4]
Kauage won Australia's Blake Prize for Religious Art, four of his works are in the Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, and he had a solo show in 2005 at the Horniman Museum, "Kauage's Visions: Art from Papua New Guinea". Other noted Papua New Guinean visual artists include Larry Santana, Martin Morububuna and Heso Kiwi. [4]
The museum collection contains both ethnographic and natural science objects. [1] One notable object is a head-dress from Bosmum village which was worn as part of a male initiation ritual. [ 2 ] As of 2008 approximately half of the objects on display were from Madang and the rest from East Sepik Province . [ 1 ]
Mathias Kauage O.B.E. (1944 in Miugu, Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea – May 2003) [1] [2] was a Papua New Guinean artist. In 1998, Kauage was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to the arts by Queen Elizabeth II. [3] The National Gallery of Australia has described him as "Papua New Guinea's best-known contemporary artist". [4]