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MUSEUM DAY 18 MAY 2014
INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY
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17 2014 18 May MAY 2014
INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY
18 MAY 2014
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Iziko Museums of South Africa INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY PROGRAMME
Iziko Museums of South Africa will host a week-long series of activities leading up to the IMD programme on 17 May 2014. Join us for a funfilled week of adventure, exploration and discovery. For further information and bookings, contact Wandile Goozen Kasibe on 021 481 3804/13 or email: wkasibe@iziko.org.za or publicprogs@iziko.org.za *Free entry to Iziko Museums of South Africa on both the 17th and 18th May (Selected Planetarium shows on 17 May, Castle of Good Hope only free on 18 May 2014).
8 MAY 2014 Date/Time
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Event description
Venue
Age
15 & 16 May
Iziko Slave Lodge (ISL) c/o Wale and Adderley Street, Cape Town
All
Iziko Rust en Vreugd, 78 Buitenkant Street,Cape Town
All
Behind-the-Scenes Tour: Presented by Fossil Preparator, Zaituna Erasmus. (Max 10 participants per session, )
Blue Room (Karoo Paleo Lab), Iziko South African Museum (ISAM)
All
10h00–10h45
Fossil Casting Demonstration
TH Barry Lecture Theatre, ISAM
All
11h00–13h00
Public Lecture: Australopithecus sediba by Dr Lee Berger
Whale Well, ISAM
All
Iziko South African National Gallery(ISANG) Atrium
All INTERNATIONAL
Starting times: 10h00; 12h00; 13h00
Tour of the exhibitions: OR Tambo: The modest revolutionary and The isiShweshwe Story: material women?
15-16 May Booking essential 12h00–13h00 & 14h00–15h00
Guided tour of Iziko Rust & Vreugd Museum by Esther Esmyol (Curator)
12-17 May: Bookings esssential Every 30 minutes from 11h00 to 14h00 15 May: Booking essential
16 May
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10h00–15h00
Art Collections Book Sale
11h00–12h00
Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Entomology Collections: (Max 15 participants for ages 5-12 years) booking essential
ISAM
5- 12 years
10h00; 12h00; 14h00
Behind-the-Scenes Tour: (Max 10 participants per session)
Blue Room (Karoo Paleo Lab), ISAM
All
10h00–12h00
'Mock Fossil Dig’
Activity Centre /Discovery Room, ISAM
All
10h001–5h00
Natural History Display: Live spiders, marine biology, microfossils and insects
Gathering Space, ISAM
All
10h00–15h00
Fossil Preparation Workshop: (Max 2 persons per slot; 20 minutes per slot)
ISAM
10 years and older
11h00–11h20
Film Screening: "The Buzz for Food" directed by Carlos Franscisco and produced by Lawrence Dworkin & George Davis (16 min)
TH Barry Lecture Theatre, ISAM
All
11h00–12h00
Public Lecture: ‘Exploring the wonderful world of wasps - a hidden microcosm of intrigue’ by Dr Simon van Noort (Curator of Entomology Collections)
TH Barry Lecture Theatre, ISAM
All
11h00–12h00
Guided Tour: Iziko South African Museum
ISAM
All
11h00–12h00
Guided Tour: ‘Suspicious Minds’ exhibition by Nina Liebenberg (Curator)
ISANG Annexe
All
11h00–12h00
Guided Tour: Bo-Kaap
Iziko Bo-Kaap Museum
All
11h00–12h00
Guided Tour: ‘Singing Freedom’ exhibition
Iziko Slave Lodge Museum
All
11h00–12h00
Guided Tour: ‘OR Tambo’ exhibition
Iziko Slave Lodge Museum
All
11h00–13h30
Cartoon Workshops: By Vernon Fourie (Artist, Illustrator & Cartoonist)
Iziko Activities Centre
17 May
18 MAY 2014
Show runs every hour from Planetarium Show: ‘Silly Solly and the Shooting Stars’ 11h00–15h00
Iziko Planetarium, ISAM
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13 - 18 years 5 - 12 years
11h00–12h00
Film Screenings courtsey of BIGFISH Digital Film School: “Mandela House” (5 min); “Hector Peterson Museum” (5 min); “Sea Skeletons” (11 min); “The spirits of Gugulethu 7” (11 min).
TH Barry Lecture Theatre, ISAM
All
12h30–13h30
Public Talk: “The search for old stone bones in the Karoo: report on recent fieldwork in the Fraserburg district” by Zaituna Erasmus, Fossil Preparator.
Red Room, ISAM
All
14h00–15h00
Public Lecture: ‘100 Years of the Michaelis Gift of Dutch and Flemish Paintings: Colonial Irrelevance or Cornucopia?’ by Hayden Proud ISAM (Curator of Historical Paintings and Sculpture)
All
ISAM
All
Museum Collections 14h00–16h00 Interactive Activities: Reflection on the 20 Years of Democracy make Connections
Iziko Rust en Vreugd, Bertram House and Koopmans-de Wet House are closed Saturday and Sunday. Iziko Old Town House, Slave Lodge Museum Collections and Bo-Kaap Museums are closed on Sunday.
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