In this chapter, I explore the contrast in visibility and experiences of Oceania peoples to the colonial narratives, perceptions, possessions, and the consequent formation of racial hierarchies in the arts sector—galleries, libraries, museums and archives. These institutions were historically created to uphold white supremacy and remain complicit in ongoing colonialism in Aotearoa, Australia, and Oceanic Nations. This chapter examines efforts to decolonise the arts sector, offering a brief history of Aotearoa and Australian Indigenous involvement in these institutions, and highlights the failure to value Indigenous-to-Indigenous relationships. Museums function as tools of power in the colonial project, reinforcing dominance over social and political power. In my work, I seek to break down colonial gatekeeping of knowledge and art, and decentre the presence of European invasion through waka memory. Waka memory is a collaborative approach to exhibition development using wayfinding methodologies and practices of talanoa, yarning or wānanga as critical engagement, centring Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing. I proposed an exhibition entitled Waka Memory to create unification between Moana and Aboriginal peoples, recentring relationships and place, and shifting museum culture. This chapter explores the benefits of waka memory in reawakening ancestral connections and challenging knowledge hierarchies in art institutions.