More than 300 aboriginal artefacts – collected by missionaries for an exhibition commissioned by Pope Pius XI in 1925 – have been properly curated for the first time and can be seen in the Vatican Museums, an event project leader Professor Margo Neale described enthusiastically as “a miracle”.
These treasures are now on public display, thanks in part to Missionary Ethnological Museum curator Father Nicola Mapelli. Last summer, Mapelli flew to Australia and visited Aboriginal communities to request permission to display the collection. His objective was to "reconnect with a living culture, not to create a museum of dead objects." His goal is accomplished in the exhibition, Rituals of Life which is focused on northern and Western Australian art from the turn of the 20th century.
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