Cape Town’s Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art, Africa’s largest museum, is scheduled to open on September 22.
The Thomas Heatherwick-designed institution will bring thousands of visitors to the city’s V&A Waterfront district, it is hoped.
The structure itself is an architectural feat. Designer Heatherwick assembled the building’s more than 80 exhibition spaces around an atrium carved in the shape of a single grain. This is a reference to venue’s former life as a grain silo structure. The majority of the museum’s collection is on long-term loan from Jochen Zeitz, the former CEO of Puma.
Art Net News shared a collection of images from the collection.
The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeit MOCAA) is a public not-for-profit contemporary art museum.
It collects, preserves, researches, and exhibits twenty-first century art from Africa and its Diaspora.
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As well as this, the centre also hosts international exhibitions; develops supporting educational and enrichment programmes; and encourages intercultural understanding.
Image courtesy of Zeit MOCAA
See Inside the New Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art, Said to Be Africa’s Largest Museum
