05/18/2026
On International Museum Day, we share our deepest gratitude to our partners at the Guam Museum and the NMI Museum of History & Culture whose collaboration and leadership made our most recent repatriation through The Homeward Project a success.
The Museum recently completed the first wave of returns of its Chamoru belongings to the Guam Museum in Hagåtña, Guam. Now, generations of Chamorus can reconnect with these items – or in some cases, see them for the first time – supporting the preservation of history and revitalization of cultural memory.
Dr. Michael Lujan Bevacqua, Curator of the Guam Museum, and Nicole Delisle Dueñas, the Archeological Collections’ lab manager at the Guam Cultural Repository, led a public viewing of the cultural resources for Chamorus in San Diego. They also shared the history of the Guam Museum and Chamoru self-determination with Museum of Us staff and trustees.
The Guam Museum will offer a public presentation and exhibit on the history of these cultural resources and the process to bring them home. This return comes during the Guam Museum’s centennial celebration.
Many thanks and meggai ma’ase to Dr. Michael Lujan Bevacqua, Nicole Dueñas, and Leonard Leon, Director of the NMI Museum of History and Culture, for this meaningful collaboration and return.
Learn more on the blog: https://museumofus.org/blog/thp-chamoru-repatriations
Photos were taken and shared with community permission.
