The Cape Town Museum, a collaborative museum that explores the history and landscape of the city, has recently been awarded the South Africa Museum Association (SAMA) Design Award for the best museum website.
Visit their website here.
The award was part of an annual design award competition in which participants formally enter. The presentation was a part of the SAMA National Conference Dinner in Stellenbosch.
The DCAS Cape Town Museum team created the content for the website, with Black Khaki designing the platform.
The Cape Town Museum is one of the Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport (DCAS) projects that aims to create a participatory initiative exploring our city as a comprehensive cultural landscape.
The museum explores various themes to encompass this initiative, including stories from the development of physical landforms and nature, to stories about how our urban landscape was shaped.
The stories explore the history of Cape Town’s people – forced removals, individual identities, community and public life, migration and movement, and the intertwining of lives.
The museum is full of every day stories that represent the way individuals and groups live, work, create, learn, play, socialise, worship and heal. These are presented alongside stories about creative interventions for the future that promote a sustainable, equitable and safe Cape Town.
The Cape Town Museum partners with other organisations in order to identify, research and showcase stories that have been hidden or erased due to marginalisation of people.
The museum aims to connect initiatives across Cape Town in research, storytelling, memory and development work, working towards how our city can progress in a way that benefits all people.
Visiting the museum is an interactive and educational experience for everyone, from locals to visitors, people coming to experience memories to people wanting to shape the future.
The concept of the Cape Town Museum has been in development for two years in which they engaged with heritage activists and community organisations in Parow, Langa, George, Cape Town City Centre, Lwandle, Mamre, and Muizenberg through social media and public workshops.
There are three locations that you can visit:
Cape Town Museum Walk-In Centre
The Walk-In Centre is a multi-purpose site where you can learn more about the programmes the museum holds and how to become involved, participate in the museum’s events and activities and view works of South African art from the mid- to late-20th century.
- Address: 148 Long Street, Cape Town
Cape Town Museum Memory Centre
The Memory Centre is found at the Cape Town Medical Museum and focuses on stories and memories of the city. It is a place you can visit to interact with the stories of others.
- Address: Old City Hospital Complex, Portswood Road, Green Point
Leeuwenhof Slave Quarters
Leeuwenhof is the official residence of the Western Cape Premier, but is a space that also houses three interlinking exhibitions in memory of enslaved people who lived and worked at Leeuwenhof.
The exhibition is researched and produced by the Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport, with the Legacy of Slavery showing art from the Cape Town Museum collection curated by Joline Young Heritage Consultants. There is also a series of contemporary art exhibitions curated by the Association for Visual Arts.
- Address: Gardens, Cape Town
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