Highlights

Current Exhibitions

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.

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Umhlaba 1913-2013 Commemorating the 1913 Land Act

  • Date: Mar 25, 2013 to Jul 28, 2013
  • Location: South African National Gallery

The Land Act of 1913, and associated legislation that was to follow during the apartheid period, had a devastating effect on the country and on the lives of millions of black South Africans. This photographic exhibition...

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Oliver Reginald Tambo: The modest revolutionary

  • Date: Mar 21, 2013 to Mar 31, 2014
  • Location: Slave Lodge

This exhibition about the African National Congress leader and politician, Oliver Tambo, is produced by the Apartheid Museum. Tambo, along with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu were founding members of the ANC Youth...

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Material women? The shweshwe story

Material women? The shweshwe story

  • Date: Feb 23, 2013 to Dec 31, 2014
  • Location: Slave Lodge

By means of costumes, accessories and contextual images, this exhibition traces the origins of isishweshwe cloth from its roots as a trade item in Asia and Europe, to its establishment as a much-loved southern African...

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Words of Slaves: Places of Memory

Words of Slaves: Places of Memory

  • Date: Jan 16, 2013 to Jun 30, 2013
  • Location: Slave Lodge

Words of Slaves: Places of Memory,traverses the continent of Africa, the Caribbean Islands and Europe. The exhibition documents and summarises some 400 years of history and the legacy of the Atlantic slave trade.   

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Labels

Labels

  • Date: Jan 12, 2013 to Dec 31, 2013
  • Location: Slave Lodge

Siemon Allen’s Labels is a large architectural installation displayed in the museum’s Music Room. This visual memorial to South Africa’s rich musical past features 5000 photographs of record labels inserted into a...

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R-A-T: An Associative Ordering

R-A-T: An Associative Ordering

  • Date: Dec 08, 2012 to Dec 08, 2013
  • Location: South African Museum

This exhibition, curated by Fritha Langerman, uses Rattus norvegicus, the brown rat, as a means to explore the representation of species within museums of natural history.  Rather than a discrete display, R-A-T is an...

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The King’s Map

The King’s Map

  • Date: Nov 29, 2012 to May 26, 2013
  • Location: South African Museum

François Le Vaillant in southern Africa 1781 – 1784

Recognised as the first significant modern ornithologist, French traveller and social critic François le Vaillant spent the years 1781 to 1784 in southern Africa. He...

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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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