Celebrating Fifty Years of Archaeology-Remembering Past Staff: Dr Bronwen van Doornum Bronwen Louelle van Doornum was born on 25 May 1976. She star...
Celebrating Fifty Years of Archaeology-Remembering Past Staff: Valerie Ward Val Ward was born in 1935 in Durban, where she later studied and then p...
Celebrating Fifty Years of Archaeology-Remembering Past Staff: Dr Aron Mazel Aron joined the museum in 1979 immediately after completing his honour...
Celebrating Fifty Years of Archaeology-Remembering Past Staff: Dr Timothy Maggs Tim Maggs (on the left in the picture above) became involved in arc...
Rock Art at Bamboo Mountain – Part 2 In April Drs Ghilraen Laue and Justine Wintjes of the Department of Human Sciences, KZN Museum, and Dr Vibeke...
Rock Art at Bamboo Mountain – Part 1 In April Drs Justine Wintjes and Ghilraen Laue of the Department of Human Sciences, KZN Museum, along with Dr Vi...
In anticipation of Youth Month the KZN Museum has prepared a Youth Development Workshop on the 15 June 2023, from 9am - 1pm, to empower young peop...
KwaZulu-Natal Museum at Tourism Indaba Come and visit the South African Museums Association (SAMA) stand at the Tourism Indaba at the Durban Interna...
Mark your schedules and save the date! The KZN Museum's next storeroom talk will take place on Wednesday, 10th of May at 10h30. Gunther Moller will ...
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Data Liberator through PLAZI By Siya Zamisa Dr John Midgley and I attended a Plazi workshop that seeks to promote the development of pers...
Excavations near Weenen Archaeologist Gavin Whitelaw, KwaZulu-Natal Museum, and a team from the University of Pretoria led by Kefilwe Rammutloa are c...
RARE SLUG FROM DRAKENSBERG Over a 130 years ago, Henry Clifden Burnup (1852–1928), lived in Pietermaritzburg and was, essentially, the founder of the...
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Visit by Royal Armouries Between 1919 and 1920, the Secretary for State for the Colonies offered material from the Tower of London, which was part of...
New insights from old collections The KwaZulu-Natal Museum’s Human Sciences department is hosting three visiting researchers from Europe, Dr Gregor B...
A surprising find at Sibhudu Shelter! An exciting new kind of object was found during recent excavations at Sibhudu Shelter, near Ballito, on the no...
Happy Human Rights Day Today we celebrate the cornerstone of democracy in South Africa, the rights of all people in our country and the democratic v...
World Poetry Day celebrates linguistic diversity and recognizes the unique ability of poetry to capture the creative spirit of the human mind. ...
Getting a closer look at the differences between animal and plant cells with Mashaka Combined School during their formal Natural Science lesson on...
Fuze’s Gourd Installation discussed in International Seminar At a seminar hosted by the Research Centre for Material Culture in the Netherlands and h...
New Collaborative Research between Members of the Khoesan Community and Scholars at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum Published A paper entitled ‘Mijnheer Loc...
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Recent book donations to the KwaZulu-Natal Museum Library! Our warmest thanks go to recent donors of art, history, and archaeology books to the KwaZu...
South Coast sampling by Dr T Nxele Another interesting earthworm survey at Oribi Gorge took place in December 2023, where sugarcane was one of the si...
Our newsletter is out! Catch up on all things KZN Museum, click on the link below. January 2023 Newsletter
Documenting rock art in the Waterberg A panel of antelope in a small but densely painted shelter (Waterberg, photograph: G. Laue). The rock art o...
Posthumously-published paper by Professor Thomas N. Huffman available as open access Venda-type walling, Limpopo Province. Image credit: T. N. Huffma...
Seasonal Survey of horse flies by Dr Kirsten Williams Horse flies are usually seen as a nuisance that bite, but they are also important vectors of di...
Progress made on pollinating fly conservation by Dr John Midgley While most people are well aware of the role bees play in pollination, the role of o...
Fieldwork in the Groot Winterhoek Mountains, Eastern Cape In November 2022, Dr Vibeke Viestad from the University of Oslo joined Drs Ghilraen Laue an...
Research into ‘Bushman’ dress by visiting scholar Dr. V. M. Viestad The Department of Human Sciences recently hosted Dr Vibeke Maria Viestad from th...
Fuze’s gourd In 1904, the Museum received a donation of a beer gourd. The donor was probably the amakholwa writer and intellectual Magema Magwaza Fuz...
Congratulations to our staff that received long service awards today! Your years of service at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum are a true testimony of y...
Raising awareness to help fight the stigma and discrimination against HIV/AIDS.#kznmuseum #WorldAIDSDay #1stofDecember #RockTheRibbon
UKZN Press and The KwaZulu-Natal Museum invite you to celebrate the republication of Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona & The Black People and Whenc...
The public is invited to attend this book launch, to be held at the KZN Museum on Saturday, 26 November at 3pm. Entrance is free. Please RSVP...
Don’t worry! We have more snakes in the collection room by Matabaro Ziganira Over the last few months, our successful outreach programmes led by th...
«This little thing of ours», as one Ju|’hoan woman expressed it earlier this year, is a distinct part of San material culture. The tortoise-shell bo...
Excavations at Border Cave 2022 Border Cave is located in the Lebombo mountain range in KwaZulu-Natal overlooking eSwatini. This site is one of a few...
Exploring coral reef resilience When looking at the sand on a beach, one might not realise that it can contain many different types of shells: from t...
Imisundu njenga ihlala emhlabathini kusho ukuthi nokubaluleka kwayo kuse mhlabathini. Imisundu idla umhlabathi ihlanganise namacembe asefile awela pha...
Professor Judith Masters, 1956 – 2022By Dr Gavin Whitelaw On the 3rd of October 2022, Professor Judith Masters and her partner Dr Fabien Génin were...
The Department of Human Sciences of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum hosted a lively symposium about Game Pass Shelter from 14 to 16 September 2022, which inc...
Dr Ghilraen Laue, Human Sciences Department, KwaZulu-Natal Museum is currently working on an archaeological excavation directed by Professor Lyn Wadle...
With the relaxation of international travel restrictions, KwaZulu-Natal Museum scientists are able to share their research with a global audience agai...
The 16th PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress, Zanzibar, Tanzania In August, Dr. Justine Wintjes and Dr. Ghilraen Laue, Human Sciences De...
KwaZulu-Natal Museum participation at the regional South African Museums Association Conference and the fieldwork in Zululand The conference took pla...
Opening of UKUPHOSA ITSHE ISIVIVANENI, an art installation by UKZN’s Centre for Visual Arts at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum19th September 2022 @ 5.30pm ...
Spears week: annual intervention into the Human Sciences collections Spears were the focus of the annual intervention into the KwaZulu-Natal Museum’s...
Archaeological Society Talk: Excavation and Rock Art in the WaterbergGhilraen Laue and Professor Lyn Wadley in front of the large sheep painting at th...
The KZN Museum commemorated Mandela Day with a special visit to Sivuli Zandla Children's Home Care Centre located in Willofontein. The visit ...
An unexpected visitor to the museum recently caused consternation for some of the staff. On returning to work after a weekend, a bat was discovered d...
Visiting Scholar from the University of Toronto, Canada Ms. Hopper measuring the internal diameter of an ostrich eggshell bead. Courtneay Hopper, a ...
KZN Museum Outreach Education Officer Marsha Kalika conducted a 3-day outreach holiday programme at the Old Prison Museum this week. The k...
Visiting Researchers from the University of Johannesburg In early June the KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Human Sciences Department, welcomed University of Jo...
The KwaZulu-Natal Museum presents Night at the Museum. So much to see including live snake shows! Loads of activities: archaeological exc...
RECAP: One of the mandates for the Natural Science Department, is to publish its collections data that fall under its umbrella to the free access data...
Archaeoacoustic project in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park Recently, Dr Ghilraen Laue, Human Sciences Department, Kwazulu-Natal Museum, joined the ER...
Just out: the book Archives of Times Past A book titled Archives of Times Past: conversations about South Africa’s deep history, edited by Cynth...
Chemists, druggists, and theatrics: a new donation for the KwaZulu-Natal Museum Mr. Coyne holding one of the items donated: the ‘Dispensing Dept’ si...
INVITATION TO SMEs TO SUBMIT THEIR COMPANY PROFILES KwaZulu-Natal Museum’s procurement operations are governed in accordance with the Public Finance ...
From the 28th April to the 8th May a training course in Taxonomy and Systematics of African Pollinating flies was held at Shawswood in Karkloof, KZN. ...
The KZN Museum will be celebrating Africa Day on the 25th May 2022 from 9am – 12:00 pm. The first part of the celebrations includes a lecture on Afric...
Every year we celebrate International Museum Day on the 18 May! This year the focus is on "Museums have the power to transform the world around us." ...
In June 2019 the Museum hosted two interns in the department of Natural Sciences (Malacology) in partnership with CATHSSETA. In their first week of a...
A visit to Patricia Vinnicombe’s childhood home "My main aim has been to demonstrate that the Bushman rock paintings are concerned not so much with t...
KZN Museum celebrated World Book and Copyright Day by launching a reading corner at the Learners Resource Centre. Special thanks to guest sp...
Happy World Book and Copyright Day! 📖📗 Created by UNESCO on 23rd April 1995, World Book Day is a worldwide celebration, promoting the enjoyme...
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO ATTEND as we celebrate World Book and Copyright Day by launching a reading corner at the KZN Museum. Join us this c...
𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗺 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱. Wishing you and your loved ones a peaceful long weekend. Stay safe. ...
Thomas Niel Huffman 17 July 1944 – 30 March 2022 Thomas (Tom) Huffman, professor emeritus of archaeology at Wits University, died yesterday at hom...
