The major temporary exhibition dedicated to the art and material culture of the Dayaks of Borneo is the result of many years of research conducted by MUSEC, in collaboration with international scientific partners. It is one of the world’s largest exhibitions ever held on this subject and undoubtedly the most extensive in the last forty-five years. The 170 works on display were mostly produced between the beginning of the 19^th century and the middle of the 20^th century and come from the MUSEC collections, as well as from four other Swiss ethnological museums (Basel, Berne, Neuchâtel and Zurich) and private Swiss and European collections. They are representative of the major genres of dayak art widespread in the West: monumental wood carvings, masks, magic hunting sticks, paddles, weapons of war, textiles, body ornaments, garments, skull-trophies, tattoo matrices, baby-carriers, architectural elements, musical instruments, jars and woven and decorated objects of material culture. The exhibition and the richly illustrated book that accompanies it are the crowning achievement of a path of research, valorisation and enhancement of the MUSEC’s collections of Borneo art, which began some 15 years ago and has already led to the realisation of exhibitions and publications, as well as cultural diplomacy actions in synergy with the Indonesian authorities.