The South African Jewish Museum and the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum: Serving different publics in two community museums in the Western Cape

dc.contributor.advisorWitz, Leslie
dc.contributor.authorButhelezi, Vincent Vusi
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-14T08:24:06Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-26T06:48:38Z
dc.date.available2018-11-14T08:24:06Z
dc.date.available2024-03-26T06:48:38Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.descriptionMagister Artium - MAen_US
dc.description.abstractThe 1990s came with many changes and developments in South Africa, especially in the political and social lives of people and their public institutions. The concept of transformation and transition became a household word, from red-carpeted parliamentary corridors to tiny gravel township streets and villages in rural communities. Two community museums emerged in the Western Cape cultural and heritage landscape in response to these political changes: the South African Jewish Museum and the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum. The extensively revamped South African Jewish Museum, which opened its doors in 1997, is situated in centre of the city of Cape Town (which under apartheid was designated as a white area). It is accommodated in the one of the oldest buildings in South Africa, the original building of the first SA Jewish synagogue built in 1862. The building has been extended, added to and extensively refurbished. The Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum is an entirely new institution in the post apartheid democratic South Africa. It is situated in a township forty kilometers from the Cape Town city centre. During the days of apartheid Lwandle township was designated as a place for black male hostel dwellers. The museum is accommodated in an old community hall, which was once a hostel dwellers recreational hall.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/9687
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectLabouren_US
dc.subjectApartheiden_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectSouth African Jewish Museumen_US
dc.subjectMuseumsen_US
dc.subjectLwandle Migrant Labour Museumen_US
dc.subjectMigrant labouren_US
dc.titleThe South African Jewish Museum and the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum: Serving different publics in two community museums in the Western Capeen_US

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