Museum

International Museum Day at No7 Castle Hill

No7 Castle Hill Museum is celebrating International Museums Day on the Friday 17th May from 10am to 4pm. Old crafts will be demonstrated; such as embroidery, lace making and quilting. At 10.30 there will be a talk on Victorian Jewelry and a chance to make your own ‘Victorian earrings’. No 7 Castle Hill is the second oldest surviving Settler cottage in Port Elizabeth. The picturesque family dwelling dates back to 1827, built by Rev Frances McClelland, the first Colonial Chaplin in the city. Rev Frances McClelland lived there during his term of office, after which it was home to many English Settlers during the early to late 19th Century. In 1965 the cottage was fully restored to reflect and represent the history and

Red Location Museum New Brighton

The History of Red Location in Port Elizabeth is fascinating and well worth the visit! Being the first settled Black Township of Port Elizabeth the name transpired from the number of deeply-red-rusted corrugated iron barrack buildings which were initially part of a Boer Concentration Camp in Uitenhage and moved to Red Location in 1900 where the first settled urban Black families settled. Noero Wolff Architects challenged the conventional methods of mixed-use museum design. Drawing inspiration from the work of Professor Andreas Huyssen who’s in-depth study of the concept of culture, memory and history and their relationship as a result reflects the intention - “Visitors should not experience the space as consumers but rather