Asia-Pacific Museum Exchange
In collaboration with the U.S. State Department Cultural Heritage Center Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the National Parks Service Hawai’i-Pacific Islands Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, UH CSEAS announces our new initiative, the Asia-Pacific Museum Exchange program!
APME Update
- APME Featured in UH NewsUH News features the Asia-Pacific Museum Exchange (APME) inaugural Face2Face Workshop at UH Mānoa, which brought together 13 museum and… Read more: APME Featured in UH News
- APME Participant Gerry Apriryan Awarded British Library FundingWe are excited to share that Ignatius Gerry Apriryan, APME Participant from the Irama Nusantara Foundation, has been awarded funding… Read more: APME Participant Gerry Apriryan Awarded British Library Funding
- APME Program Featured by U.S. EmbassiesThe Asia-Pacific Museum Professionals Exchange (APME) has recently been featured by two U.S. embassies, highlighting the program’s success in fostering… Read more: APME Program Featured by U.S. Embassies
2025 APME Participants
Erika Radewagen
American Samoa
Started in May 2024, Asia-Pacific Museum Exchange (APME) is a new initiative and pilot program organized by the UH Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) in partnership with the Cultural Heritage Bureau of the U.S. Department of State and National Park Service. The inaugural cohort of 13 fellows were selected to participate in the Face2Face Workshop at UH Mānoa in July 2025.
The 13 fellows are museum curators, educators, archivists, collections managers, and cultural stewards from various museums in Vanuatu, Saipan, Palau, American Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Brunei, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The workshop consisted of site-visits to various museums, archives, and historic sites around Oʻahu, where they shared and discussed best practices with Honolulu-based museum professionals and collaborated on developing renewed policies and practices of museum work and collections care.