The items included in the Oceania exhibit are mostly cultural artifacts collected by Max Liu in Papua New Guinea. In 1993 he donated 240 items to the museum. Four years ago they received another group of items from his son Liu Ning-sheng, also an explorer. Those gifts, in combination with other recent acquisitions of the museum, bring the total number of items in this collection to 325.
大洋洲的珍貴館藏，大多是已故藝術探索家劉其偉採集自巴布亞紐幾內亞的文化標本，1993 年捐贈 240 餘件給科博館，4 年前再獲其子、同為探索家的劉寧生捐贈，加上科博館的新進藏品，共累積 325 件標本。