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Museo Me was a project for my honours degree. This year, I’ve started a new online publication that incorporates the work I did here and also expands on new topics. In Mzansi is all...
Museo Me Blog
Welcome
Museo Me is all about museum-going in Cape Town. Here, you can go behind the scenes with museum staff, hear how other Capetonians encounter museums and reflect on trends in the sector. There's practical information, too, with reviews, an events calendar and a list of top museums in the Mother City.
Latest Blog Posts
Youth in the Museum: Looking to the Future Museum
In the second of a two-part series, young people articulate their vision for the future of museums. When it comes to learning about heritage, youths don’t feel the need to engage much with museums. They explain why, as well as what their ideal museum — one that they would more readily engage with — would look like.
Forging the Future Simon’s Town Museum in the Fire
Despite funding shortages and the isolation of social distancing, the Simon’s Town Museum’s community-building work is making a positive impact on the Cape Flats. Education officer Tazneem Wentzel talks about the future of institutions that trade in the past.
Youth in the Museum: Meeting the Museum
In the first of a two-part series, young people — often a target demographic of museum policies — talk about how they’ve experienced museums and the social influences that make them visit these spaces. They explain why museums are relevant — and why they don’t often visit them.
An Intimate Encounter with Virtual Sculptures
When the pandemic wrecked plans to exhibit Basotho artist Samuele Makoanyane’s sculptures, the curators made an exhibition of the future from these 20th-century figurines. KE LIHA PENE – I lay down my pen is the latest virtual exhibition hosted on the Iziko Museums websites.
Me in the Museum
Museo Me is a product of my young lifetime’s engagements with museums at home and abroad. The museum is something associated with school, with history and with being educated. But it can be more than that. I want our museums to amuse and engage us, with reflection but also with fun. In these five memories and one absent memory (since museums are so much about pondering the past), I’ll tell you why.
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