The Iziko Planetarium and Digital Dome is the most advanced of its kind on the African Continent. It brings together art, science, and entertainment for a truly innovative experience of discovery and learning. Visit the Planetarium for an immersive, multi-sensory voyage of the universe! Explore the secrets of our cosmic chemistry and explosive origins in We Are Stars; travel back to the beginning of time and experience the birth of the sun in Sunstruck; and marvel at Infinity Express – a remarkable blend of science, art and entertainment that dramatically communicates the latest breakthroughs in our quest to understand the universe.

Other Planetarium shows include: Perfect Little Planet • Dream to Fly • Passport to the Universe • Tycho to the Moon • Search for Life – Are we Alone? • Beyond the Sun • TILT • The Sun Our Living Star • Out there - The Quest for Extrasolar World • Polaris • Starlight • Dark Universe Visit www.iziko.org/shows to find out more! Show times during school term: Tuesday – Friday @ 11h00 and 13h00; Saturday and Sunday @ 10h30, 12h00 & 13h30. Show times during school holidays: Tuesday – Sunday @ 10h30, 12h00 & 13h30. Cost: Adults (19 years and older): R60; Children, students and SA pensioners: R30

NOTE: Closed for research on Mondays; the Iziko Planetarium and Digital Dome reserves the right to change or cancel advertised shows without prior notice. *Prices subject to change annually.

ARTISTRY IN REVIEW an online showcase of artworks by ’s new young school leavers – the Matric class of 2020. The showcase features a representation of each school in the offering visual art. The presentations are divided into districts, and hosted in collaboration with the Western Cape Education Department (WCED). Enduring Covid-19 shares the humanitarian responses, resilience, strength and fortitude of communities, individuals and faith-based organisations, reflecting on the lives, experiences and actions of South Africans during a global pandemic. This online exhibition illustrates how this pandemic not only exposed inequalities, but also brought together people of different races, cultures and classes.

Our World, Our Heritage includes work by Foundation, Intermediate and Senior Phase learners, Darion Fortuin. Artwork: as well as Further Education and Training learners – from the WCED art centres. Compiled by Iziko Art Educator Yentl Kohler, the works mainly on paper, were selected in response to the theme Our World, Our Heritage and set to music from the South Peninsula High School Band and the Hugo Lamprecht Music Centre. The iconic Boonstra Diorama exhibition was the first of its kind when it opened in South Africa during 1959. Now, an ambitious digital preservation project, in collaboration with Zamani Project, showcases the 270-million year old fossil discoveries of the Karoo online. Join Karoo Palaeontology Curator and research scientist, Claire Browning, for this virtual tour! Step back in time, explore the William Fehr Collection at the . This virtual tour showcases objects and artwork in the Collection from the 17th to the 19th centuries of the Cape colonial settlement and maritime scenes.

The Education Department at of South Africa runs dynamic school, holiday, public and outreach programmes geared towards creating engaging learning experiences for everyone.

The School Programmes are directly aligned to the national CAPs curriculum and supports the learning outcomes at Foundation, General Education and Training (GET) as well as Further Education and Training (FET) Phases. Lessons conducted during museum visits build on classroom practice and provide relatable experiences for both learners and educators.

The Iziko Mobile Museum and Outreach Programme extends the Museums’ footprint and educational benefits to communities and schools across the province and beyond. The museum-on-wheels takes the museum experience to people and communities in remote and peri-urban areas, unable to physically visit the Iziko Museums. Book the Mobile Museum, contact Sthembele Harmans on 021 481 3812 or email [email protected].

Public Programmes often aligned to national commemorative days draw upon museum, exhibitions and collections resources to contextualise contemporary topics and actively encourage citizen participation, nation-building and social cohesion. Programme details for Freedom Day, 27 April; International Museum Day, 18 May; Africa Day, 25 May; Youth Day, 16 June; and International tograph Pho : M Mandela Day, 18 July, will be available online closer to the time. Contact Dr Wandile Kasibe at ar la [email protected] or on 021 481 3804. B u r g e HOLIDAY CAREERS WORKSHOP Iziko invites grade 9 to 12 learners for an exciting three-day r . Careers Workshop from 20–22 July. Seize this opportunity to discover museum careers in curating, collections and displays. Email Kashiefa Millward at [email protected] for fee and booking enquiries.

HOLIDAY PROGRAMMES Iziko’s School Holiday Programmes (SHP) consist of a series of FUN, EXCITING and ENRICHING art, science, history and planetarium workshops. April HOLIDAYS: 26 April 2021 – 30 April 2021 July HOLIDAYS: 12 July 2021 – 16 July 2021 Detailed workshop and programme updates will be available online closer to the time. Email Wardah Harris at [email protected] for enquiries and booking information.

• ART: Yentl Kohler, Tel. 021 481 3961 or email [email protected] • SOCIAL HISTORY: Lungile Gadezweni, Tel. 021 467 7222 or email [email protected] • NATURAL HISTORY: Anton van Wyk, Tel. 021 481 3924 or email [email protected] • SCHOOL GROUP BOOKINGS: Wardah Harris, Tel. 021 481 3823 or email [email protected] • MUSEUM OUTREACH BOOKINGS: Sthembele Harmans, Tel. 021 481 3812 or email [email protected] • PUBLIC PROGRAMMES: Dr Wandile Kasibe, Tel. 021 481 3804 or email [email protected]

Friends of the Iziko South African Iziko’s libraries include the Social History Library National Gallery and the Art Collections Library. Our libraries To receive full details regarding the monthly provide resources to the public on request, and calendar of the Friends’ programme, kindly email visits can be made by arrangement! Contact [email protected] or Tel. 021 481 3951. Shaheeda Dante at [email protected] or Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook at Baheya Hardy at [email protected] @SANGfriends for regular updates regarding to make a booking. Visit our Website for Friends’ events! more information! Friends of the Iziko South African Museum Keep up to date with the FriendsofIzikoSAMuseum Cover Image: Fetching water from the pump at the top of the Heerengracht (present day ), Cape on Facebook and see the Iziko website for Town, 1833 by Sir Charles D’Oyly William. It is a sketch in the details of all Friends events and activities. William Fehr Collection [B72]. Photographs: Unless stated, Contact Charlotte Honiball via email all images by Iziko Photographer, Nigel Pamplin and Iziko PESP Interns Lusanda Paul and Ayabulela Stevens. [email protected] Photograph by Carina Beyer.

Iziko Museums of South Africa encourages Visit Iziko Museums of South Africa *FREE OF CHARGE on: the public to visit *selected Museums and exhibitions, and participate in educational Human Rights Day 21 March National Women’s Day 9 August programmes and workshops on a number of Freedom Day 27 April Heritage Week 2021 20-26 September South African commemorative days spread throughout the year. We commit ourselves International Museum Day 18 May National Aids Awareness Day 1 December to making our museums accessible to all Africa Day 25 May Emancipation Day 1 December South Africans. We encourage families and members of communities far and wide to Youth Day 16 June Reconciliation Day 16 December access these cultural resources; and by *Only on International Museum Day and Heritage Day is entrance to the Castle of Good Hope and Groot free; entrance opening our doors in this way, we say to you: to the Planetarium and Digital Dome is half-price on these days. Details of events will be made available closer to the time on our Our museums are your museums. website. Correct at time of print. E&OE.

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Red in the Rainbow offers fascinating insights into the idealism, vision, as well as the frustrations, pain and sheer persistence that led to the ending of apartheid and the birth of “the Rainbow Nation”. This multimedia exhibition features graphic, video and sound material, as well as a reconstructed replica prison cell from the 1970s. Red in the Rainbow forms a key part of a major permanent exhibition dedicated to struggle history at the Iziko Slave Lodge in .

Men Affirming Dignity (MAD) is the South African Faith and Family Institute’s (SAFFI) travelling multi-media exhibition which starts its journey at Iziko Slave Lodge. MAD seeks to amplify the expressed humanity in the narratives and histories of men who live their lives cultivating Ubuntu by affirming their own dignity as well as that of women, children and other men in relationships and communities.

New Slavery Exhibitions – Join us as we take you through the renewed slavery exhibition spaces at the Iziko Slave Lodge. We have re-written the exhibition narrative to give greater recognition to the presence of women and children, to acknowledge their agency and to highlight positive and negative legacies and the afterlives of slavery. This is a representation of many truths in a traumatic and complex history of slavery and dispossession as it impacted on the lives of most black South Africans.

Unshackled History: the Wreck of the Slave Ship, São José, 1794 brings into memory the enslaved people who lost their lives aboard the slave ship the São José that ran aground off Clifton’s 4th Beach in 1794. It documents the journey of the wreck – from its tragic end, its discovery, and ultimately to its place in the future studies of slave wrecks.

Aluta Continua profiles a selection of stories from students living in the Western Cape during the 1976 student uprising, and seeks to map their individual and collective contribution to the fall of apartheid and the subsequent dream of a free and fair South Africa for all.

National Symbols takes a look at the symbols that define us as a nation – promoting and instilling a sense of pride, identity and unity. In a similar way, our African Union symbols point to the significance of unity across the African continent.

Kemet: Life in Ancient Egypt follows the story that unfolds when an ordinary Egyptian passes away and enters the afterlife through an Augmented Reality game, developed by students from the Friends of Design: Academy of Digital Arts.

COMING SOON ON SHOW NOW 1000 year-old Lydenburg Heads – and shows us Leora Farber’s Disquieting Domesticities/ Framing Landscape: ‘the Picturesque’ and ‘the that rites of passage have been important to Vestiges of Violence (or, the ghost in the house) Sublime’ drawn from the Abe Bailey, Iziko SANG the people of southern Africa for a long time. is an installation of materially corporeal, yet and William Fehr Collections, this showcase Certain milestones in life connect us; ceremonies, ethereal and spectral, ‘impressions’ of domestic unites historical landscape paintings from these marriage and birthdays are all examples of how objects made from cellulose fibre. Inhabiting collections for the first time. Works mostly we celebrate or acknowledge change, and our a state of in-between-ness, the impressions made in Europe and South Africa between the recognition of the importance of rites of passage. reference objects from Dutch 17th century still 1600s and the 1800s highlight two major modes Explore the precursor virtual exhibition, Looking life paintings, and evoke the legacies of South of landscape art that emerged in this period: A Head: Revisiting the Lydenburg Heads online African Dutch and British settler colonialism ‘the Picturesque’ and ‘the Sublime’. While the at https://www.iziko.org.za/virtual-exhibitions and apartheid. If read against this historical Picturesque sought to convey a pleasurable, backdrop of dispossession and exploitation, improved vision of a harmonious nature, the ON SHOW NOW Farber’s impressions recall uncanny spectres of Sublime sought to convey its infinite power and JellyWorld – an ocean full of jellyfish in a disquietude and violence that inhabit the present. unpredictable moods, often invoking feelings world changed by people is a multidisciplinary Opens at ISANG May 2021 (TBC). of awe and terror. The Sublime remains vital as exhibition, featuring video, interactive humanity now confronts its own fearful and Dreams as R-evolution is a multi-media touchscreens and specimens centred around man-made vistas of environmental depredation installation by Durban-based artist, curator and the theme of the interaction between jellyfish and climate change. educator, Coral Bijoux. The installation takes and humans. viewers on a dreamlike journey as the artist Drawing from the Collection is a showcase The exhibition raises awareness around the role imagines scenarios of being. It presents a surreal highlighting the ISANG collection’s drawings; from that jellyfish play in marine ecosystems and otherworldliness that is beyond social past eras and many nations, to those unfinished why they are important to society. Jellyworld’s conditioning. What are the boundaries of and playful, those serious in their detail, and showstopper is a low-cost, 3-D hologram of a knowledge production? What is known about those satirical in their execution. Also drawn from jellyfish – including instructions on how to make heritage? What do we choose to care about and the Permanent Collection, Tribute brings South your own using a mobile phone, an old CD cover, for? What do we preserve and for whom? Africa’s visual art school syllabus to life, creating and some sticky-tape! a stimulating learning engagement that fosters The installation playfully weaves plant life and African Dinosaurs showcases the history of respect, enjoyment and fresh visual expression. plastic into the conversation and provokes these giants that once ruled the earth millions There’s also a new sculptural development in us to reconsider our (in)humane-ness towards of years ago. Realistic dioramas of ancient Karoo the ISANG atrium! In the 1930s, Herbert and Eva ourselves, each other and our environments. landscapes with fleshed-up reconstructions of Meyerowitz were the husband and wife team Its four narrative elements dare us to reimagine some magnificent African dinosaurs help bring responsible for carving the Liberman Memorial ideas of self, space, authority and innocence. the fossils back to life. Opens at ISANG May 2021. Doorway. Accomplished sculptors in relief, they also worked on the stucco reliefs for the now- Sentinels of the South examines the history, Territories Between Us draws works from the demolished Odeon Theatre in – reliefs discoveries and current role of South Africa’s ISANG’s permanent collection in conversation that are currently installed on either side of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean exploration. It with artistic interventions and other artworks. Liberman Door. takes visitors through the history and challenges The exhibition highlights artworks by of early Antarctic exploration, and South Africa’s contemporary artists and interrogates ideas role in this. around place and belonging, specifically in Origins of Early Sapiens Behaviour – Welcome relation to contemporary art collections. The NEW ON SHOW Home Mother Africa presents the unique exhibition invites visitors to challenge the For almost 2000 years, pots, hoes, beads archaeological discoveries made at the coastal permanent collection, simultaneously using and more connected people from Lydenburg sites of Blombos Cave, Klasies River cave it as a tool to think through various concerns. to Great Zimbabwe and beyond. There is and Klipdrift shelter in the southern Cape of In engaging with works that oscillate between meaning in the spaces we occupy, the things South Africa. Occupied by early Homo sapiens disciplines, modes of working, or on the borders we make or buy, and how we choose to use between 120 000 and 50 000 years ago, this is of these territories, Territories Between Us them. Essentially, this connects us all. Talking a key period in the evolution of modern human attempts to inch away from a counterstance and Heads and Heritage: in conversation with the behaviour. instead seeks to explore a restored existence. Lydenburg Heads celebrates one of South Opens at ISANG April 2021 Africa’s most treasured archaeological finds - the Tata Madiba: Father of our democracy, father of our nation is a multi-disciplinary exhibition that pays tribute to Nelson Mandela – an instrumental catalyst of change and warrior against apartheid. Madiba’s extraordinary contribution to the protection of South Africa’s rich biodiversity is featured - including the many species named after him. The biodiversity Madiba and his fellow prisoners may have encountered on are also showcased. You can now tour this exhibition online at https://www.iziko.org.za/ virtual-exhibitions

Artwork: Sculptural impressions by Leora Faber. African Dinosaurs Exhibition at ISAM. Photograph by Carina Beyer.

Explore our heritage! Visit Iziko Museums SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM - ISAM - IGC 25 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town Groot Constantia Estate, Constantia Tel: 021 481 3800 Fax: 021 481 3993 Tel: 021 795 5150 Closed: Workers’ Day & Christmas Day Closed: Workers’ Day & Christmas Day PLANETARIUM & DIGITAL DOME SLAVE LODGE - ISL 25 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town c/o Adderley & Wale Streets, Cape Town Tel: 021 481 3900 Fax: 021 481 3990 Tel: 021 467 7229 Fax: 021 465 8222 Closed: Mondays, Workers’ Day Closed: Sundays, Workers’ Day & Christmas Day. & Christmas Day BO-KAAP MUSEUM - IBK SA NATIONAL GALLERY - ISANG 71 Wale Street, Cape Town 80 St Johns Road, Cape Town Tel: 021 481 3938/ 9 Tel: 021 481 3970 Fax: 021 461 6796 Closed: Sundays, Eid ul Fitr, Eid ul Adha, Closed: Workers’ Day & Christmas Day Workers’ Day, Christmas Day, 2 January MICHAELIS COLLECTION AT THE - IBH OLD TOWN HOUSE - IOTH 41 Orange Street, Cape Town Cnr Longmarket & Burg Street, Cape Town Reopening to the public pending. Currently closed. See website for updates. KOOPMANS-DE WET HOUSE - IKDW WILLIAM FEHR COLLECTION 35 , Cape Town Castle of Good Hope, Darling Street, Tel: 021 481 3935 Cape Town Tel: 021 467 7223 Open: Thursday to Friday 10h00–14h30 Fax: 021 461 7416 Open: Daily 09h00–17h00 Closed: Saturday to Wednesday, Closed: Christmas Day & New Year’s Day. Workers’ Day and Christmas Day Adults: R50; Pensioners with Bookings through Wardah Harris at SA pensioner cards: R25; [email protected] Students with SA student cards: R25; Children: Under 5 years free, over RUST EN VREUGD - IR&V 5 years R25; Booked school groups: R8 per 78 Buitenkant Street, Cape Town learner, accompanying teachers: R15 Tel: 021 481 3903 Fax: 021 461 962 Open: Thursday to Friday 10h00–14h30 Closed: Saturday to Wednesday, SOCIAL HISTORY CENTRE Workers’ Day and Christmas Day 11 Church Square, Cape Town Bookings through Wardah Harris at Access by appointment only. [email protected] See Iziko Libraries for contact details.

All Museums closed on Mondays. Please visit the Iziko website or call for operating hours. Tel: +27 (0)21 481 3800 Email: [email protected]

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