Of Slumbering, Patient Objects Awaiting our Arrival (Or Maybe Return)

Abstract

It is my honour, as a German scholar and historian of Pacific-German connections, to send the collection of insights, thoughts and hopes edited by Safua Akeli Amaama and Philipp Schorch onwards and to wish it well. For a conclusion would mark the essays as finished, as artifacts of scholarly accomplishments, published and bounded. Instead, this is an invitation to engage with innovative curatorial practices that connect and invigorate museum collections, and celebrate enduring Sāmoanness that is strong at home and remains so throughout many mobilities.