Iziko Museums

Gut Check: Autopsy Shows Mummified Kestrel Was Fed to Death – (curated as of interest to Iziko Museums and Cape Town).

This was most likely the fate of SACHM 2575, a Eurasian Kestrel from the Iziko Museums of South Africa that the researchers autopsied. Using CT imaging, scientists from Egypt, South Africa, and Germany performed a virtual autopsy of the mummified young …
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History will break your heart – (curated as of interest to Iziko Museums and Cape Town).

Iziko Museums of South Africa will host an exhibition for the 2015 Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner for Visual Art from 19 November 2015 until 20 January 2016. Entitled History will Break your Heart, the exhibition, displayed at the Iziko South …
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Remains of 18th-Century Slave Ship Find Safe Harbor at Smithsonian – (curated as of interest to Iziko Museums and Cape Town).

Long-lost between two reefs off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, are the fragmented remains of a Portuguese slave ship, now identified centuries later as the first known wreck of its kind. Ripped apart near the Cape of Good Hope in 1794 while en …
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Museum night arrives in SA – (curated as of interest to Iziko Museums and Cape Town).

Members of the public are also invited to explore art, history and culture in an entirely new way as the Initiators of the First Thursdays phenomenon, in collaboration with Iziko Museums of South Africa, introduce the first edition of Museum Night. For …
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