Museum Africa - Newton, South Africa
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Museum Africa is Johannesburg’s social and cultural history museum. It is located in what was once the city’s fruit and vegetable market, with a block-long facade, towering pillars and huge interior space.
Waymark Code: WMJKNR
Location: Gauteng, South Africa
Date Posted: 11/30/2013
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The long-term exhibitions of social history include Cartoons in context, curated by Linda Chernis. Through accompanying text and images, the cartoons are contextualised to take viewers on an unusual journey through South African history.
The exhibition, My Culture? will help you explore and understand cultural groups: what they are, how they change over time, what their significance may be, and how they can be used and abused. You are asked to question your cultural links, what choices you have and how valuable your culture is to you. Almost 500 South Africa cultural groups – well-known and less so, from Afrikaner through Chopi and Khoekhoen to Xhosa – have been identified.
The Geology Museum displays South Africa’s fascinating geological heritage, which includes remnants of an ancient continent; one of the oldest and largest meteorite impact craters in the world, important fossils; the largest deposit of gold worldwide; and the largest diamond ever found. The Geology Museum has more than 15 000 examples of rocks, gems and minerals, and is one of the best geological collections in South Africa.
Another long-term exhibition that continues to draw visitors to Museum Africa is Gandhi’s Johannesburg: The birthplace of Satyagraha. In 1893, after studying in London, Gandhi came to South Africa to work as a lawyer, and from 1904 to 1913 he lived in Johannesburg.
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