History of the Guam Museum Columns
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In 2022 while attending the first ever Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Museum Institute (NHPIMI) in Hawai'i, I began to write a series of columns for the Pacific Daily News that covered some of the 90 year history of the Guam Museum. In recent decades the Guam Museum has a fairly complicated history, where at times for years there was no actual museum, just a collection moving from storage space to storage space. Even at times when there has been a physical, dedicated facility for the museum, sometimes there has been insufficient staff or resources. Even legally where the museum falls within the Government of Guam as an agency has changed over the past forty years. For these complicating factors, the columns focused on the museum's history from the 1930s to the 1970s. ******************* “Can a Museum Being a Living Institution?” July 21, 2022 I am spending the month of July at the East-West Center as part of the historic first cohort for the Native Hawaiian Pacifi