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The collection contains the Dachau prison identity card, shoe receipt and original concentration camp jacket worn in the Dachau concentration camp. The blue and white striped jacket belonged to Alexander…
The collection contains correspondence, documentation, publications and ephemera related to Sische Nagel, an industrial chemist, and his wife, Mirla
A consortium of scholars and researchers devoted to exploring and promoting discussion of race, iconography, and the colonial and post-colonial periods of Africa and Europe. The ACHAC collection documents the influence of…
The Morris and Dorothy Margolin Film Collection includes 32 home movies that capture the Margolins' travels between 1947 and 1976. Destinations represented in the collection include Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada,…
The Museum Building Shortly after the establishment of the town of Somerset, 1825, land on the slopes of the Boschberg Mountain was given to the Wesleyan missionaries for a chapel…
A fresh and full installation of the Iziko Michaelis Collection, Cape Town's famous collection of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings, is now on view. The rehang not only seeks to…
The historical collections of painting and sculpture within the Art Collections Department of Iziko Museums embrace a wide range of works for art that are both South African and foreign…
