Thanks to Bianca Botham for an exciting pictorial tour of the Wits Art Museum in South Africa…
I finally had a chance to go and see the Wits90 Treasures exhibition at the Wits Art Museum this afternoon. I was really moved by the hand written notes by former President Nelson Mandela and a photograph of Robert Sobukwe on his way to the Sharpeville riots. At the same time I was inspired by the fossilised Massospondylus dinousaur eggs and the tiny skull of our hominid ancestor the Taung child. The exhibit contains amazing fragments of our history and gave me a chance to reflect on everything that has come before us.
Self-portrait reflection at Wits Art Museum entrance
17th Century Clavicyhterium
Medical embryo models purchased for teaching in the 1920s
Polar bear skeleton
Skull of the Taung child
Iron lung/Cabinet respirator
Fossils of Massospondylus dinosaur eggs
Venda divination set
Clay tablets 3000 – 2000 BC
Wits Art Museum basement
Lights at the museum cafe