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Open from Monday to Sunday 09h00 - 17h00 The museum is a world-class facility that comprises two independent but closely linked museums. It was designed by a team of academics and designers from Wits University and aims to provide visitors with a unique experience of Africa's rich, complex and sometimes mysterious past. Combining cutting edge technology with the creative vision of South Africa's foremost artists, the narrative structure of the museum takes visitors through an extraordinary journey of discovery. The journey begins with the origins of humankind in Africa and then moves through the development of art, symbolism, technology the very things that give us our humanity on the continent. The journey then continues through the destruction of the great and diverse southern African rock art traditions the world's oldest continuous art forms at the hands of colonists before ending, more positively, with the re-discovery of these ancient masterworks in a contemporary world. Unashamedly Africa-centric, the Origins Centre seeks to restore the continent to its rightful place in history as the place where everything that makes us who we are today originated. |
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