Museums and art galleries
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South African holidays - sights and activities - Museums and art galleries
Museums and art galleries of South Africa
Photography by Graeme Williams. Copyright owner: Media Club South Africa
Current exhibitions at Iziko National museum, Cape Town
Subtle Thresholds: The representational taxonomies of disease
Artist Fritha Langerman brings you this exhibition of visual representation of disease. Subtle Thresholds aims to cast light on the cultural and historical mythologies that have contributed to the perception of disease as a state of otherness and separation.
Wildlife Photographer of the year
With the very best wildlife photography featuring natural subjects, this competition and compilation is brought to you by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine.
Darwin and the Cape
In 2009 we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, plus the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. This exhibition provides an overview of Darwin’s life, his adding to biology, and his relationship with the Cape.
African dinosaur exhibition: phase 1
With sauropod dinosaur Jobaria skeleton, which was cast from a fossil discovered in northern Niger by Dr Paul Sereno and the huge head of Carcharodontosaurus, a close relative of Tyrannosaurus, and the skull of the extinct crocodile Sarcosuchus.
Beads - ritual and ornamentation
Features prehistoric and ethnographic beads from southern Africa. Objects include Nassarius kraussianus shell beads, dating back to 77 000 years. These are among the earliest beads discovered anywhere in the world.
National museums and art galleries include:
Albany Museum in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape
Bartholomew Dias Museum Complex in Mossel Bay, Garden Route
Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery in Bloemfontein, Free State
Rock Art Department in Bloemfontein, Free State
Adler Museum of Medicine in Johannesburg, Gauteng
Bleloch Geological Museum in Johannesburg, Gauteng
CE Moss Herbarium in Johannesburg, Gauteng
Department of Historical Papers in Johannesburg, Gauteng
Edoardo Villa Museum in Pretoria, Gauteng
General Entomology in Pretoria, Gauteng
Historic Racing Car Register in Johannesburg, Gauteng
James Hall Transport Museum in Johannesburg, Gauteng
Johannesburg Civic Gallery in Johannesburg, Gauteng
Mapungubwe Collection in Pretoria, Gauteng
Comrades Marathon House in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal
Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal
Lichtenburg Museums in Lichtenburg
Laurens van der Post Museum in Philippolis, Northern Cape
William Humphrey's Art Gallery in Kimberly, Northern Cape
Afrikaans Language Museum in Paarl, Western Cape
Bertram House in Cape Town, Western Cape
Bo-Kaap Museum in Cape Town, Western Cape
Burgerhuis in Stellenbosch, Western Cape
Cape Medical Museum in Cape Town, Western Cape
Cape Town Holocaust Centre in Cape Town, Western Cape
De Oude Drostdy in Tulbagh, Western Cape
District Six Museum in Cape Town, Western Cape
Gold of Africa Museum in Cape Town, Western Cape
Groot Constantia Manor House & Wine Museum in Cape Town, Western Cape
South African Museum in Cape Town with its amazing fossilized displays, Western Cape
SA National Gallery in Cape Town for its incredible collection, Western Cape
Museum Africa in Johannesburg has an amazing collection of old prints, paintings and paperwork, Gauteng
Johannesburg Art Gallery with works by Picasso, the Flemish school and a great series of Saharan African art, Gauteng
www.joburg.org.za/whatson/fineart.stm
Pretoria Art Museum with a huge collection of local art, Gauteng
William Humphreys Art Gallery in Kimberley with 16th and 17th Century British and Flemish masterworks.
Kimberley Mine Museum is South Africa's largest open-air museum representing diamond rush times.
Oliewenhuis Art Museum - Bloemfontein, Free State
National Museum - Bloemfontein, Free State
University Museum, University of Stellenbosch (Stellenbosch), Western Cape
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