Comments on: First Encounters (or where is the Cape Town Museum?) http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/02/first-encounters-or-where-is-the-cape-town-museum/ Cities for People Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:26:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Margie Orford http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/02/first-encounters-or-where-is-the-cape-town-museum/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Margie Orford Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:06:57 +0000 http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=761#comment-156 I have been thinking about the concept of a Museum of Cape Town that we discussed at lunch the other day. I had the notion that one might make a museum without walls – so make a museum that is in fact the city – to consolidate the walking trips and then locate places and things within the grid of old Cape Town that speak of the history: so people would have a map or a kind of GPS thing that they could load into the phones, or have a written version of, or have as a download for an ipod or something that would take them on the tour of the city and then tell them about things – like the old slave tree in Church Square, or the Muslim burials that would go from Hanover Street up to Tanu Baru. People could hear the music or have passages from poems of books read out to them as they listened to the recording or read their map/book thing. I don’t know if it has been done anywhere – but it seemed to me that instead of finding yet another building in which to trap objects and artefacts one could get people moving around the city and teach them to ‘read’ its past in its present. It could be so fun and flexible too and not that hard to do, I don’t imagine.... I have been thinking about the concept of a Museum of Cape Town that we discussed at lunch the other day. I had the notion that one might make a museum without walls – so make a museum that is in fact the city – to consolidate the walking trips and then locate places and things within the grid of old Cape Town that speak of the history: so people would have a map or a kind of GPS thing that they could load into the phones, or have a written version of, or have as a download for an ipod or something that would take them on the tour of the city and then tell them about things – like the old slave tree in Church Square, or the Muslim burials that would go from Hanover Street up to Tanu Baru. People could hear the music or have passages from poems of books read out to them as they listened to the recording or read their map/book thing. I don’t know if it has been done anywhere – but it seemed to me that instead of finding yet another building in which to trap objects and artefacts one could get people moving around the city and teach them to ‘read’ its past in its present. It could be so fun and flexible too and not that hard to do, I don’t imagine….

]]> By: Rashiq Fataar http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/02/first-encounters-or-where-is-the-cape-town-museum/comment-page-1/#comment-120 Rashiq Fataar Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:34:06 +0000 http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=761#comment-120 Well one idea: "Cape Town: The story", consisting of a guided tour to the various museums/sites/squares telling the story of the City of Cape Town across various sites and throughout one day. In terms of a museum, the main issue would be funding, since we already have so many other museums, or perhaps dedicating part of a museum to telling Cape Town's story. The City Hall, after its refurbishment, is one potential venue, or perhaps an entirely new venue on the Foreshore or at the V&A. Well one idea:

“Cape Town: The story”, consisting of a guided tour to the various museums/sites/squares telling the story of the City of Cape Town across various sites and throughout one day.

In terms of a museum, the main issue would be funding, since we already have so many other museums, or perhaps dedicating part of a museum to telling Cape Town’s story.

The City Hall, after its refurbishment, is one potential venue, or perhaps an entirely new venue on the Foreshore or at the V&A.

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