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The Archive in Pictures

We are happy to announce the launch of a new digital curation in which the KwaZulu-Natal Museum features prominently. The curation is a creative reconfiguration of a book chapter titled, ‘The Archive in Pictures: A Visual Essay’, in which Justine Wintjes, from the Department of Human Sciences and a collaborating partner of the Five Hundred Year Archive, explores the excitement, diversity and complexity of experiences of working with and in the ‘archive’. The chapter appears in the book Archives of Times Past: Conversations About South Africa’s Deep History, edited by Cynthia Kros, John Wright, Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Helen Ludlow (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2022).

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