Romane Mélingue

Biographie

Romane Mélingue is the scientific curator of the collections at the Museum of African, Oceanian and Native American Arts (MAAOA) in Marseille. She holds a Master’s degree (Master II) in Art History and Museology from the École du Louvre (Paris) and a Master’s degree (Master II) in Public Affairs (Culture) from Sciences Po (Paris). She furthered her training within the Prépa Talents program at the Institut national du patrimoine (Paris), where she successfully passed the competitive examination for the position of heritage conservation attaché. From 2022 to 2025, she co-led, under the curatorship of Alexandre Girard-Muscagorry, the redevelopment of the Museum of Music (Cité de la Musique – Philharmonie de Paris), whose new exhibition pathway, Des musiques et des mondes (“Music and Worlds”), offers a renewed, global, and interconnected approach to instrumental heritage. In this context, she notably coordinated the scientific redeployment of non-Western collections, supervised artist residencies, and contributed to the collective volume The World Instrument: A Global History of Music. Since 2020, she has been teaching the history of African arts at the École du Louvre. In 2025, she joined, as an expert member, the Prefiguration Mission on provenance research led by the French Museums Service. Since her appointment at the MAAOA, Romane Mélingue has been responsible for the scientific supervision of the African, Oceanian, and Native American collections, with a focus on provenance research and the conservation of sensitive collections, including ancestral human remains.