Highlights

Current Exhibitions

Candice Breitz: Extra!

Candice Breitz: Extra!

  • Date: Apr 01, 2012 to Jul 22, 2012
  • Location: South African National Gallery

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

Arab Priest

  • Date: Apr 01, 2012 to Jul 01, 2012
  • Location: South African National Gallery

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)

Iqholo le Afrika (Her African Pride)

  • Date: Mar 16, 2012 to Jul 08, 2012
  • Location: South African National Gallery

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...

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The World’s Oldest Chemistry Set? New Discoveries from Blombos Cave

The World’s Oldest Chemistry Set? New Discoveries from Blombos Cave

  • Date: Oct 13, 2011 to Oct 13, 2014
  • Location: South African Museum

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...

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The Cold Choice: Operation Hunger – Photographs by Struan Robertson

The Cold Choice: Operation Hunger – Photographs by Struan Robertson

  • Date: Sep 01, 2011 to May 30, 2012
  • Location: Slave Lodge

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

Sounds and Silences from a San Archive

  • Date: Aug 18, 2011 to May 15, 2013
  • Location: Bertram House

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

Siliva Zulu

  • Date: Aug 15, 2011 to Jan 31, 2013
  • Location: Slave Lodge

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

The Sky Tonight

  • Date: Jan 01, 2011 to Jan 27, 2013
  • Location: Planetarium

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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