Asia Pacific Museum Exchange

Asia-Pacific Museum Exchange (APME) is a program of the U.S. Department of State’s Heritage Exchange Initiative—a series of cultural heritage focused programs to strengthen ties between the United States, Pacific Islands, and Southeast Asian nations to build professional networks across the ocean we share. With support from the Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the U.S. National Park Service’s Museum Management Program and the University of Hawaiʻi Center for Southeast Asian Studies developed and implemented APME via the Hawaiʻi-Pacific Islands Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU; Task Agreement P24AC00688).