The account presented in Chap. 6, ‘Taking Research and Community Engagement beyond the Academic’, is also deeply personal to my own interests as an engaged Indigenous scholar and activist. It highlights a number of iterations of the Textile tales of pua kumbu exhibition that were presented in different locations from 2015 to 2018. The idea of moving beyond the academic world should not be seen as diluting so-called analytical rigour in any way. Rather, engaging with a wider public is actually a highly demanding task that requires the utmost attention to a precise mode of communication, outside the comfort zone of the well-turned journal article or book. My desire to reach beyond came from a recognition of the unconditional value of so-called ‘ordinary culture’ and the wish to spotlight the artistic creativity of a subaltern group. The result is, I believe, an important example of the emerging practice of Indigenous curation and ‘sensory museology’, recognising that polysensory spaces are exciting places for historical, cross-cultural and aesthetic exploration.