Posted on September 22, 2025
As South Africa celebrates Heritage Month, it is timely to reflect on the largely untapped value of university heritage collections. Across the country’s 26 higher education institutions, fewer than eight are estimated to have museums or galleries, and less than half do not provide public...
Posted on September 12, 2025
UP documentary threads women’s voices into South Africa’s history
Posted on July 22, 2025
From Mogalakwena to Mapungubwe: Curatorial engagement beyond university museum walls
Posted on May 31, 2025
A DHHS PhD Candidate and UP Museums Interpretive Officer shines a Ghana Workshop on History, Heritage, and the Tourist Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa
Posted on May 08, 2025
Shaping the Future: UP Museums Celebrate International Museum Day 2025 with Innovation, Creativity and Community
Posted on April 27, 2025
Language learning seeing together: UP Museums Bokgabo ba Mašela exhibition.
Posted on March 07, 2025
Bokgabo ba mašela threads history that explores women’s voices in a new art of textiles exhibition at the University of Pretoria Museums
Posted on January 29, 2025
The Art of the Archive University Museum archives gain wider accessibility with a new online exhibition.
Posted on October 21, 2024
The recent UP Museums ‘Homage to Pretoria’ exhibition was “layered with provocations that unearth new inquiries within us all”, according to award-winning artist Bongani Njalo, who is also Cultural Programs Coordinator for the Goethe-Institut South Africa in Johannesburg....
Posted on October 07, 2024
Congratulations to Onkarabetse Bontsi as the first prize winner of the University of Pretoria (UP) Museums Heritage Month photo competition for 2024. Onkarabetse is an undergraduate student enrolled for BA Languages in the Faculty of Humanities and chose to personally reflect on the year 1999...
Posted on August 02, 2024
Uthando Baduza has been appointed as curator of Art Exhibitions and Galleries for the University of Pretoria (UP) Museums. His credentials include a master’s in Public and Visual History (cum laude) from the University of the Western Cape; experience at the Red Location Art Gallery in...
Posted on June 10, 2024
Michelle de la Harpe, an archivist for the UP Museums Archive, reflects on how technology is making archives more accessible to young people.
Posted on May 27, 2024
UP Museums to mark International Museum Day
Posted on May 21, 2024
UP Museums recently launched the ‘Homage to Pretoria’ exhibition, which showcases artworks by a wide selection of leading South African artists from the 19th to 21st centuries.
Posted on May 10, 2024
UP Museums pay Homage to Pretoria in new exhibition launching for International Museums Month in May
Posted on March 25, 2024
University of Pretoria Tourism Honours students take a tour of the University of Pretoria Museums as part of their training
Posted on March 05, 2024
Exploring the Villa Gallery: A fusion of art, history, and culture at UP
Posted on February 08, 2024
Mapungubwe Gallery re-opens: University of Pretoria Museums
Posted on October 31, 2023
Security salute of distinction: UP Museums security awards conferred
Posted on October 26, 2023
Advocates for art conservation: The University of Pretoria Museums’ conservation efforts.
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