An integral part of museum work is the conservation of artefacts. It’s not enough simply to store something. Factors such as climate, pests…
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Far from the staid image many people may have of museums, Durban Local History Museums (DLHM) are constantly innovating the way in which…
The exhibition will be officially opened to the public on 11 February 2017, as part of annual commemorations of the archbishop’s death which occurred on 13 February 2004.
“South African Voices –Towards a Museum of HIV Memory and Learning” is a large-scale public health exhibition that documents a critical and defining chapter in our collective journey to overcome HIV in South Africa.
As part of its public engagement initiatives the Local History Museums of eThekwini Municipality hosts a series of seminars and lectures every year, and the first of these is the annual Josiah Tshangana Gumede Lecture & Dialogue, which took place on 4 February 2016 at the Natural Science Research Centre.
Subsequent to an address by the then Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Dr Zweli Mkhize, to the South African National Editors Forum during November 2012, opportunities for the repatriation and reburial of Nat Nakasa, journalist, activist and one of the great South Africans, began to surface.
The Local History Museums (LHM) ‘Passbook’ Competition aims primarily to promote appreciation of heritage through empathy and tolerance.
