International Museum Week Programme

INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY

MUSEUM DAY 18 MAY 2014

INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY

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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).

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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

INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY

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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