Musée de Tahiti et des Îles, Cultural museum in Punaʻauiʻa, French Polynesia

The Musée de Tahiti et des Îles, now Te Fare Ia’manaha, reopened on 4 March 2023 in a building by architect Pierre-Jean Picart at Pointe-des-Pêcheurs, Punaauia. Its 1,400 m² gallery, arranged by scenographer Adrien Gardère, displays objects in open islands across the archipelagos. The exterior has a steep dark brown tiled roof extending into an angular canopy over two grey-framed glass doors.

A museum of Papeete created in 1917 by the Société des Études océaniennes closed in 1975, and its ethnographic collections passed to the Musée de Tahiti et des Îles. The territorial assembly voted the new museum's creation in 1974 on land acquired in 1967 at Nu'uroa Point, former site of the Taputapuatea marae and of the first evangelical mission; it opened in 1975. Renovated by architect Pierre-Jean Picart, it reopened on 4 March 2023 as Te Fare Ia'manaha.

The collection includes a portrait of Pōmare IV painted by Charles Giraud, a Mangarevan coconut-log mask, historic tapa, adzes and breadfruit tools. Objects collected by missionary George Bennet were returned to Tahiti, and the Maro'ura, a sacred tapa chiefly belt worn by Pōmare and described by James Cook in 1767, is on renewable three-year loan from the Musée du quai Branly since 2019.

The museum stands at Pointe-des-Pêcheurs near the mouth of the Punaruu river, about 15 km southwest of Papeete in Punaauia, on a fenced 4-hectare site facing the lagoon; a rock breakwater shields it from swells crossing the Nuuroa pass. The galleries reopened in March 2023 as a single 1,400 m² open space laid out in island clusters, so visitors move between archipelagos as they wish.

The Maro'ura, a fragment of a sacred tapa belt worn by chiefs, was worn by King Pōmare when James Cook saw him in 1767. In September 2019 the museum's director Miriama Bono signed an agreement with the Musée du quai Branly for its return to Tahiti as a three-year renewable loan, since French law prevents outright restitution.