Maia Nuku, Oceania curator at New York's Metropolitan Museum

Last September marked 40 years since the Te Maori exhibition opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and recently its Oceania galleries underwent a major renovation. They will reopen in May 2025 and host a number of delegations from the Pacific including one from Aotearoa. The Oceania curator is Maia Nuku whose iwi is Ngai Tai on the East Coast of the North Island.