IOL: 7 May 2021: Apartheid Museum closes its doors as SA loses another cultural landmark to Covid-19
IOL: 7 May 2021: Apartheid Museum closes its doors as SA loses another cultural landmark to Covid-19 Apartheid Museum closes its doors as SA loses another cultural landmark to Covid-19 https://www.iol.co.za/travel/south-africa/gauteng/apartheid-museum-closes-its-doors-as-sa-loses-another-cultural-landmark-to-covid-19-ce6bdee6-12e8-5a9f-8478-e32ac68ef6cd
World Economic Forum: Stolen colonial-era objects will be ‘unconditionally’ returned, says the Netherlands
World Economic Forum: Stolen colonial-era objects will be ‘unconditionally’ returned, says the Netherlands The Netherlands is going to return stolen artefacts | World Economic Forum Dutch state collections should have no place for items acquired by theft, the government says. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/all-stolen-colonial-era-artefacts-will-be-returned-says-netherlands/
The Daily Maverick: 20 April 2021: Mother City Fire: UCT’s intellectual heart ripped out
The Daily Maverick: 20 April 2021: Mother City Fire: UCT’s intellectual heart ripped out Mother City fire: UCT’s intellectual heart ripped out… The Jagger Reading Room has been devastated and some of its most precious and irreplaceable intellectual content has been lost. The heart of any university is the library – it is the centre for knowledge production, one of the key purposes of any university. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/op…
Daily Maverick: 8 April 2021: How to stop the degradation of our museums and cultural infrastructure
Daily Maverick: 8 April 2021: How to stop the degradation of our museums and cultural infrastructure
Museum Alive: AR iPhone app with narration by Sir David Attenborough
Museum Alive: AR iPhone app with narration by Sir David Attenborough Museum Alive is an iPhone app with AR dioramas – The Verge The Museum Alive iPhone app brings extinct creatures to life on your living room table thanks to augmented reality. Oh, and narration by Sir David Attenborough doesn’t hurt, either. https://www.theverge.com/22299611/museum-alive-iphone-app-david-attenborough-augmented-reality Museum Alive …
BBC News: Covid-19: The secret life of museums during lockdown
BBC News: Covid-19: The secret life of museums during lockdown Covid-19: The secret life of museums during lockdown – BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55755740
MuseumNext: Museum Digital Ideas from 2020
MuseumNext: Museum Digital Ideas from 2020 Museum Digital Ideas from 2020 – MuseumNext Founded in 2009 in England, MuseumNext brings together a passionate community of museum leaders, makers and innovators to ask ‘what’s next for museums?’ https://www.museumnext.com/article/museum-digital-ideas-from-2020/
Launch of UNESCO report on museums in the face of COVID-19
Launch of UNESCO report on museums in the face of COVID-19 Launch of UNESCO Report on museums around the world in the face of COVID-19 https://en.unesco.org/news/launch-unesco-report-museums-around-world-face-covid-19
Links on decolonising the museum
Links on decolonising the museum These links on experiences of decolonising the museum came from the recent ICOM, SAMA and COMCOL seminar: Indigenising and Decolonising the Museum – Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum A story about indigenising and decolonising the museum, presenting concrete strategies and actionable measures for rapid change. Sámi Dáiddamusea or Sámi https://www.mu…
Daily Maverick: 2 November 2020: NLC boss tells Parliament non-existent R13-million minstrel museum has been completed
Daily Maverick: 2 November 2020: NLC boss tells Parliament non-existent R13-million minstrel museum has been completed NLC boss tells Parliament non-existent R13-million mins… National Lotteries Commission head Thabang Mampane has responded to Parliamentary questions about some lottery grants. In the reply she lists three projects, amounting to over R50-million, for the Cape Town minstrels funded by the lottery. One such project was for the building of a minstrel…