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It is one of the challenges of our times — how to get young people into museums and become more interested in their cultural and historic heritage. (Photo by Emmanuele Contini/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

How to get Gen Z off screens and into museums

The innovative methodology of design thinking can show us how to reimagine museums and heritage spaces

A view from Apartheid Museum. (Photo by Murat Ozgur Guvendik/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

SA museums are dull and financially draining 

Most museums are uninspiring and out of touch, with dust-covered neglected artefacts the main attractions

The Zeitz MOCAA museum at the V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa(Photo by: Marc Hoberman/Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa partners with Gucci to put on its first annual fundraising gala

Art & Opulence-themed event will preview an new exhibition titled When We See Us

Smash and grab: The Benin Empire existed in what is now Nigeria from 1440 to 1897. In 1897, British forces captured and burnt the city of Benin, looting thousands of artworks, including bronze statues.  (Pictures From History/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

The Battle for the Benin Bronzes reaches melting point

Benin City’s looted bronzes are coming home – but the British Museum hasn’t received the memo, writes Carlos Amato

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‘Systems were working as intended’ – department of public works and infrastructure

The joint standing committee on the financial management of parliament met about preliminary findings on fire damage

The question of human remains and cultural material held in European ethnographic museums is also a question of the largely devastating afterlives of European colonial rule. (John McCann/M&G)

Decolonisation can’t just be a metaphor

Decolonising museums requires more than knowledge exchange and lending back stolen artefacts

Black achievement: The Museum of Black Civilisations was finally financed and built by the Chinese. Some see a Chinese pagoda in the design, but others say it reflects the design of Wolof houses.Photo: Seyllou/ AFP

Senegalese artistic heritage gets a home

Conceived in the 1960s, shortly after independence, Senegal’s new Museum of Black Civilisations has finally been completed

Heritage house: Central African Republic national museum director Abel Kotton faces a tough task to rehabilitate the ramshackle building that is home to thousands of historical artefacts.

A broken museum, in a broken country: Meet the man trying to save CAR’s history

Abel Kotton’s job is to turn the national museum once again into a proud showcase of Central African history

The Centrale Montemartini in Rome features classical and modern artworks.

10 of the best museums in Europe you should know

From penguins to purses to prostheses – why not take a detour from big museums and try one of these intriguing alternatives?

The gospel of the New Church

Director of ‘nimble’ Cape Town gallery wants to commission ‘irreverent and challenging’ work for the ?’reflective space’.

Norman Foster’s Ombrière turns life upside down.

Marseilles’ cultural moment

As the European capital of culture, Marseille is shaking off its seedy image.

Curious about the past

Curious about the past

Itumeleng Masiteng is passionate about archaeology because it is has no limit.