Highlights
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Siliva Zulu
15 August
Slave Lodge -
The World’s Oldest Chemistry Set? New Discoveries from Blombos Cave
13 October
South African Museum -
Listening to Distant Thunder: The Art of Peter Clarke
20 October
South African National Gallery
Current Exhibitions
Candice Breitz: Extra!
This exhibition was created on the set of the soap opera Generations – the most watched television programme on the African continent. In Extra!, Candice Breitz inserts herself into a number of actual scenes from...
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Arab Priest
Iziko Museums is proud to partner with the Department of Arts and Culture, the South African Heritage Resources Agency and the Qatar Museums Authority, in hosting Irma Stern’s ‘Arab Priest’ at the Iziko South African...
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Iqholo le Afrika (Her African Pride)
A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Barbara Tyrrell
Iziko South African National Gallery, Rooms 2 and 3
16 March – 08 July 2012
An exhibition, by curators Vusi Buthelezi and Yvonne Winters of the Campbell...
The World’s Oldest Chemistry Set? New Discoveries from Blombos Cave
Rock Art Gallery Ongoing
“What makes us human?” This topical question receives some answer in the form of two unique 100 000-year-old ochre preparing kits from Blombos Cave, South Africa. This remarkable...
The Cold Choice: Operation Hunger – Photographs by Struan Robertson
The photographs by Struan Robertson (1927-2011) in this exhibition, are the result of his four years of travel and documentation in South Africa with Operation Hunger. The photographs are a record of rural poverty in...
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Sounds and Silences from a San Archive
Sound and Silences from a San Archive is an exhibition of Iziko Social History’s archive of /Xam and other San ethnography, artefacts, rare wax cylinder sound recordings, drawings, and memories collected by Wilhelm Bleek,...
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Siliva Zulu
This exhibition, undertaken in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture, showcases photographs taken in 1927 by the controversial Italian anthropologist, Lidio Cipriani (1892–1962), during the shooting of the...
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The Sky Tonight
An interesting live lecture on the current night sky is presented every Saturday and Sunday. You will receive a star map and be shown where to find the constellations and planets that are visible this month.
Saturday -...
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