Situated on the Corner Olof Palme and Singaphi Streets, New Brighton, the Museum has been closed since 2013 and the dream is kept alive by the ‘No Tourism Without Art’ collective which meets outside the museum every Saturday – now led by Lungelo Ngabaza from an initiative started by Lungelo, Mike Pantsi, Annette Du Plessis and Alan Straton.
The ”’Red Location Museum”’ is a museum in the New Brighton township of Gqeberha, South Africa.
The museum was opened to the public on 10 November 2006 as a tribute to the struggle against Apartheid. It is situated in a shack settlement that is one of the oldest townships in Port Elizabeth.
The area once housed a Boer concentration camp, but the camp’s residents were moved in 1900 when the site would become one of the first few urban settlements for Black people.
The building was designed by Cape Town-based architect Jo Noero of Noero Architects. The concept was inspired by the … Read the full article here: NMB Wiki
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