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On 28 July 2006 the Museum held a symposium to explore the significance of the Cook-Forster ethnographic collection of the University of Göttingen. The collection was acquired during Cook's three voyages to the Pacific, between 1768 and 1780. Speakers at the symposium explored the history of the collection, its contemporary importance to the descendants of the objects' makers, and its impact on the fields of anthropology, art and museology.
The Cook's Pacific Encounters exhibition, held at the National Museum of Australia from 1 July to 10 September 2006, showcased a selection of artefacts from the Cook-Forster collection. You can discover more about the Cook-Forster collection at the online exhibition,
Cook's Pacific Encounters.
A publication of the symposium papers will be forthcoming from NMA Press.
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From left to right: Mike Smith, Howard Morphy, Adrienne Kaeppler, Lissant Bolton, Craddock Morton and Maria Nugent at the Cook Symposium. Photo: George Serras, National Museum of Australia.
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