The exhibition “Mana. The Museo delle Culture’s Micronesian and Polynesian Collections” explores and records the complex concept of mana through a number of works from the museum’s Micronesian and Polynesian collections. Traditional beliefs in Oceania claimed that objects had an immanent energy known as mana: the impersonal and sacred force from the spiritual world, capable of animating objects and those who owned or used them. It was believed that the mana, a concept closely linked to the idea of prestige and status, that pervaded the very body of some people of high status also flowed into the artefacts associated with them and, conversely, the contact with powerful objects could enrich the mana of people apt to enter into relationship with cosmological forces. In the rooms on the ground floor, dedicated to temporary exhibitions, the visitor is greeted by three refined works of art, a prelude to the works in the Polynesia Room located on the second floor and an integral part of the museum’s permanent exhibition.