For the sixth edition of Local Issues and Locales, Honours in Curatorship student Adele van Heerden explores the use of cabinets in the university, with a particular focus on those found in the Percy Fitzpatrick Institute of African
As a part of their Local Issues and Locales course, the Honours in Curatorship students explored various collections on Upper Campus. Dylan Owen shares his views on the curatorship of the Physics Department’s collection
The toy story of the Simon’s Town Warrior Toy Museum is both ancient and present. Here, historic toys infiltrate their way into the contemporary era – at first creating temporal visual confusion.
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As a part of the Honours in Curatorship Local Issues and Locales course, the Honours in Curatorship class recently attended a fieldtrip to UCT’s Pathology Learning Centre. In preparation for the fieldtrip, Josephine Higgins provided a l
Supposing you could take part in an experiment where you walk into every museum in Cape Town blindfolded and try to identify your surroundings, the Springbok Experience Rugby Museum would be the easiest to pinpoint.
The Kirby collection housed at the University of Cape Town’s music campus shows the tensions involved in the acquisition and maintenance of a collection of rare and delicate objects.
