The Iziko Mobile Museum is an educational outreach project based at Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town. The Mobile Museum is intended to make some of our collections more accessible to the wider public. In particular the Mobile Museum reaches those rural and urban communities that have difficulty accessing our museums due to circumstance or distance.

The Mobile Museum is a customized vehicle that is equipped with interactive modules that showcase South Africa’s heritage of indigenous knowledge. Each module consists of a display unit and a supporting resource pack that can be used in the classroom by teachers or by Iziko facilitators. Display modules contain artefacts relating to San rock art, the importance of cattle in African culture and indigenous bead work. The knowledge focus areas covered by these themes include human evolution and early South African societies.

The primary focus of the exhibition is the Social Sciences learning area in the National Curriculum for Grades 4 to 9, but the modules can also be used in other learning areas such as Technology and Life Orientation. The bus also transports material used for Natural Sciences lessons, including biodiversity, classification of vertebrates and invertebrates, and the naming of parts of the animal’s body and skeleton.

‘Tracking Tradition’, a resource booklet accompanying the exhibition, includes over forty illustrated classroom activities.

The Iziko Mobile Museum is an educational outreach project designed to take educational museum resources to rural and urban communities that are unable to visit the Iziko Museums. Visits by the Iziko Mobile Museum have to be booked two months in advance. There is no charge.

Contact Wandile Kasibe or Sthembele Harmans at Tel. 021 481 3804/ 12 or email wkasibe@iziko.org.za or publicprogs@iziko.org.za.

The Iziko Mobile Museum is funded by the National Lottery Board.