Public Programmes
The Cape Town Museum works with partners to collaborate on public programmes such as events, dialogues/conversations, research projects, and storytelling and memory projects. These are designed to uplift, inspire, educate, and connect the organisations and people of Cape Town with the ultimate aim of creating a better future for our city. Many of our past programmes have dealt with issues affecting youth, women, social inclusion, and human rights, as well as celebrating the diverse histories of communities around Cape Town.
Shaping our Future is a collaborative project between the Cape Metro and West Coast Museums and the Africa Unite School Club programme, which is designed to give youth younger than 25 a platform to share their views. Though the main activities take place in Youth Month (June), the programme runs throughout the year.
Cape Town Museum, in partnership with the City of Cape Town, documents and collects personal histories, memories, and stories of Cape Town as told by its residents.
The Cape Town Museum Memory Project allows residents to document and share their history using their own words, images, and perspectives.
We believe that museums should be active agents of change and development. Museums should inspire and change lives while they mediate identity. Cape Town Museum, therefore, has a dialogical activist ethos that provides platforms for inclusive dialogue on the future of the City.
To commemorate National Museum Day, MEWCO (Metro and West Coast) museums held a webinar to reflect on their Vision 2040 strategy and to showcase how some of the MEWCO museums are innovating and adapting to a changing world.
If we could rank cities according to how desirable they are for women to live, work and play in, where would Cape Town rank? What can we do to make Cape Town a better city for women?
“Amazing”, “inspiring” and “powerful” were the words used by participants who attended a recent webinar to celebrate the end of the Shaping our Future Youth Month initiative. Organised by Cape Metro and West Coast Museums together with Africa Unite, the project had asked young people to submit creative works (poems, videos, art, or photography) that reflect on the impact that COVID-19 is having on their communities and to share their visions for a better future (their contributions can be viewed on the Shaping Our Future Facebook page ).
