Vanuatu Cultural Centre

The Vanuatu Cultural Centre is an umbrella organization which includes : Its aim is to record and promote the traditional indigenous cultures of Vanuatu in their various aspects - from sand drawing to music, land diving, other "customary practices" and "indigenous knowledge"-, but also the country's "contemporary arts and music".

[4] Among its projects is the Oral Traditions Collection Project, started in 1976, which has been described as "without doubt, the Pacific's most successful grassroots cultural documentation program".

[5] The Centre produces radio programmes and videos aimed at cultural promotion, preservation or revival.

Some material may be accessed only by men, some only by women, and some only by members of particular indigenous cultural groups.

[5] In 2002 the German painter Ingo Kühl, after participating in an expedition of the Vanuatu Cultural Center to ceremonies of the indigenous people on Malakula, his works that were created there were shown in an exhibition at the National Museum of Vanuatu and in 2004–2005 at the Ethnological Museum of Berlin.