The Overseas Museum is home to the islands of the Pacific. Together with scientists and project partners from Oceania, we show the diversity, splendor and threats of this region of the world.
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Ta tau - that's the tapping sound of tattooing tools from Samoa. For us, it's above all body jewelry - for the Samoans, it's an ever-present, worn home. Wonderfully poetically explained in the Übersee-Museum, but also painlessly visible on your own skin!
We're not going under - we're fighting: in Europe, climate change is a mild winter, in the Pacific it's a question of survival - told here by the "Pacific Climate Warriors".
The long journey of the coconut: it is the epitome of "South Seas romance" - but also a commodity, building material, the stuff of legends, food for palm thieves and part of colonial history. Freshly fallen from the tree in the Übersee-Museum, floating and floating in the room with all its stories.
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