In French Polynesia, a museum opposes the autonomist Marquesas to the independence authorities | EUROtoday

The affair awakens the previous identification and political opposition which separates the Marquesas from Tahiti: by wishing to exhibit from the start of 2025, in its personal museum, essentially the most stunning puzzles, spears and oars taken to Europe from the 18th century^e century or nonetheless current on its lands, the Marquesan island of Hiva-Oa opposes the independence authorities of French Polynesia.

Hiva-Oa plans an funding of 180 million Pacific francs (1.5 million euros) to renovate the present Gauguin middle. With funding from the abroad and tradition ministries, the municipality and patronage… however nothing from the group of French Polynesia. Officially, the reason being that the standing of the autonomous abroad territory doesn’t present for municipal museums. The authorities chaired by Moetai Brotherson due to this fact doesn’t plan to take part within the creation of this cultural area. In French Polynesia, Marquesan objects are exhibited on the Museum of Tahiti and the Islands, rebuilt in 2023.

But this cultural centralization echoes a political centralization that the Marquesans contest, that of a authorities based mostly in Papeete which decides the destiny of the 5 Polynesian archipelagos positioned a number of thousand kilometers away. Proud of their variations, the Marquesas displayed them over the past territorial elections. It is the one archipelago that didn’t vote for the Tavini Huiraatira independence celebration which got here to energy in 2023 after many years of autonomist presidency.

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