Paul Gauguin Museum, Art museum in Papeari, Tahiti.

The Paul Gauguin Museum is an art museum in the village of Papeari, on the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia. It occupies a Japanese-style building and holds a collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, gouaches, photographs, and documents related to the artist's work.

The museum was founded in 1964 by Father Patrick O'Reilly and the Singer-Polignac Foundation, on the land where Gauguin settled after arriving in Tahiti in 1891. The site is directly tied to the Polynesian years of his life.

The museum has been closed since 2013 for renovation, so its rooms cannot be visited today. Its exhibits, held for the reopening, cover French Polynesian and Marquesan cultural aspects alongside original Gauguin documents, photographs, reproductions, sculptures, engravings and gouaches. Some of his sketches and block prints have not been seen for years. The sister museum in Hiva Oa remains open.

The museum is at PK 51 on Tahiti's coastal road, next to the Botanical Gardens of Papeari, and is easiest to reach by car. It is worth checking whether it is open before you go, as the site sometimes closes for renovation work.

The museum holds no original paintings by Gauguin, as his major works are kept in large museums in Europe and the United States. The collection focuses instead on reproductions, documents, and objects that trace his life and work on the islands.