Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History

3 Rofhiwa Nthangeni - 2 months ago

Didn’t get to see much of the inside as it was closed on the weekend. But there is an outside garden where you can walk. I feel like this place has so much more potential but is not being maintained well

4 Phillip - 2 months ago

Worth a visit.
Parking at the back in the side street.

3 Johann de Villiers - 2 years ago

Verg good large collection of stuffed mammals and birds on display. Interactive displays are all broken and run down. Kids loved it still. (Dec2019, Cost R40/adult R20/child)

5 WS Pianos - 3 years ago

Opera is one of the most important elements of the Italian cultural heritage, and probably the most important Italian cultural assets in South Africa. This style of performance, born in Italy over four hundred years ago, has become so widespread and deeply rooted in the world that it is regarded as the highest and most complex expression within musical theatre.

The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, born in 1880, over the centuries, was able to bring together internationally renowned set and costume designers, whose works form a gigantic iconographic heritage through artistic and highly relevant documents. The Historical Archives preserves this precious collection of more than 11.000 sketches and 90.000 costumes, 10.000 pictures, 10.000 playbills, press-reviews since 1911, audios since 1964 and videos since 1984.

The exhibition was opened on March 28th with a special performance by opera students of the Tshwane University of Pretoria. The display is a selection of 49 sketches and 14 costumes, each piece related to a famous opera title, selected essays designed by theatrical artists ranging from 1912 to the present day, part of the golden age of opera. This exhibition is a tribute to Opera, a journey through the masterpieces and the most famous characters of the lyrical repertoire performed at the Teatro dell’Opera in the last century, from Barbiere di Siviglia to Aida, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, La Traviata, Andrea Chénier, Don Pasquale, Cavalleria Rusticana and many others.

The exhibition will be open to the public until April 30th.

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4 Ezekiel Mogalanyana - a year ago

It wonderful for taking out kids on weekends

4 lerato mnisi - 2 years ago

It's beautiful and insightful, creepy mummy display but I loved it. The place was not cleaned though after an event -I'm assuming . Curtains for deco were not put down which made it hard to see things up on some of the walls.

5 Sbu Mkhabela - 4 months ago

Vast knowledge gained , well designed to accommodate young children to adults and professionals alike