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​​The City of Johannesburg is celebrating International Museum Day. The theme chosen for 2018 is “Hyperconnected museums: New approaches, new publics”.







This year’s theme highlights the importance of museums as a means of cultural exchange, cultural education and the development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among people. Museums are also important institution for collective memory and influence how society remembers the past.





International Museum Day is growing in popularity and in 2017 more than 36,000 museums participated in the event in some 157 countries.​





All City museums offer free entry and play a meaningful role in addressing the inequality to access to information and public spaces.





The late Emmanuel N Arinze, President of the Commonwealth Association of Museums, stated that museums “hold the cultural wealth of the nation in trust for all generations and by its function and unique position, have become the cultural conscience of the nations”.





As part of International Museum Day celebrations, the City of Johannesburg museums will be hosting events from 18 May 2018 and will run throughout May. The events will foster dialogue, curiosity, self-reflection and a deeper understanding of South Africa’s collective heritage.





Please see below some of the events that the City’s museums will be hosting: