Date: May 25, 2021 To commemorate National Museum Day, MEWCO (Metro and West Coast) museums held a webinar to reflect on their Vision 2040 strategy and to showcase how some of the MEWCO museums are innovating and adapting to a changing world. The webinar followed the theme for International Museum ...
Read MoreReimagining Cape Town as a Feminist City – Women’s Day Webinar
If we could rank cities according to how desirable they are for women to live, work and play in, where would Cape Town rank? What can we do to make Cape Town a better city for women? To celebrate Women’s Day, the Cape Town Museum together with the Gender Equity ...
Read MoreShaping Our Future Youth Webinar – All About Healing
“Amazing”, “inspiring” and “powerful” were the words used by participants who attended a recent webinar to celebrate the end of the Shaping our Future Youth Month initiative. Organised by Cape Metro and West Coast Museums together with Africa Unite, the project had asked young people to submit creative works (poems, ...
Read MoreWebinar Invitation: Shaping our Future – Youth Voices in a Time of Covid-19
Date: Saturday, 25 July 2020 Time: 11:00 – 13:00 Youth Day 2020 took place in the midst of a global pandemic. In this current situation, Cape Metro and West Coast Museums together with Africa Unite are celebrating Youth Month by asking young people to reflect on the impact that COVID-19 ...
Read MoreSHAPING OUR FUTURE – YOUTH VOICES IN A TIME OF COVID-19
SHAPING OUR FUTURE – YOUTH VOICES IN A TIME OF COVID-19 Youth Day 2020 is taking place in the midst of a global pandemic. In this current situation, the Cape Metro and West Coast museums affiliated to the Western Cape Museum Services, in partnership with Africa Unite, are inviting the ...
Read MoreOrange the World: Generation Equality stands against Rape! Count me in.
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence which is an annual international campaign is commemorated annually between the 25th November and the 10th December. These days respectively are known as International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Human Rights Day with World Aids Day being observed on ...
Read MoreThink Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change
Cape Town Museum recently celebrated Women’s Month with a participatory exhibition under the theme, Think Equal, Built Smart, Innovate for Change. The event, which was held on on 1st August 2019, was organised in partnership with the Gender Equity Unit of the University of the Western Cape. Organisations such as ...
Read MoreCape Town Museum celebrates Africa Day and International Museum Day!
On 18 May 2019, the Cape Town Museum in partnership with Africa Unite, hosted an Inter High School Africa Day quiz. The event took place at the Cape Metro Council Chambers and six schools participated. Heideveld High School emerged as the winners with Rosendaal High School from Delft second and ...
Read MoreWhat’s your Cape Town? Public Workshops
A museum that’s not a museum We’re planning a new museum to tell the story of Cape Town: Your Cape Town… and we need to hear from you. What stories should the Cape Town Museum tell? Where should it tell those stories? How should it tell those stories? Who should ...
Read MoreWhat’s your Cape Town?
The Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport, through its Museum service, has appointed Place Matters to conduct the research and conceptualization process for the Cape Town Museum. As part of this process, Place Matters will be conducting workshops and engagements with members of the public to get their input on ...
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