Skybok: Albany Museum (Grahamstown, South Africa)
Somerset Road, Grahamstown.
The lost tarantula collection of the Albany Museum
The Baboon Spider Atlas team visits the Albany Museum in Grahamstown to see what hidden treasures are buried there.
Albany Museum authenticates dinosaur tooth find
A 13-year-old from Knysna in the Southern Cape is on the cusp of fame. Ben Ingel discovered a dinosaur tooth on a local beach two years ago. Last week, experts from Albany Museum in Grahamstown authenticated his find.
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Scifest Africa 2016 - Dr Rob Gess, Albany Museum - The unusual coelacanth fossil find
Recorded 8 March 2016
When in 1953, Professor JLB Smith was dissecting
the second known specimen of the coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae, where the Rhodes University
Department of Geology is today, nobody could have suspected that ancient fossil coelacanths were
buried on Waterloo Farm just over the hill. It took the building of the
controversial road bypass south of Grahamstown in 1985, to expose black shale that was mud in a
coastal estuary around 360 million years ago, to reveal the most important fossil site of its age
in Africa.
Roadworks undertaken in the early 2000s to stabilise the cutting, carved away most of the richest
shale, but 70 tons of this was carefully quarried out ahead of the roadworks and stored in sheds
for ongoing research. It was amongst this shale that Dr Robert Gess of the Albany Museum found over
30 specimens of coelacanth babies (3-6 cm in length), which he described with Professor Michael
Coates of the University of Chicago. This find provides evidence for the oldest coelacanth nursery
in the world by 60 million years. The species, the oldest in Africa, was described as Serenichthys
kowiensis (Serena’s fish from the Kowie River), in September 2015.
Rob, a palaeontologist based at the Albany Museum in Grahamstown, will describe how the coastline,
animals and plants of the site outside Grahamstown were different in the Devonian Period, tell the
story of this breakthrough find, and outline some of what we have learned from the coelacanth
fossils and other fossils found at Waterloo Farm.
Rob obtained his PhD in palaeontology from the University of the Witwatersrand, under the dual
mentorship of Professor Michael Coates at the University of Chicago, and Professor Bruce Rubidge,
Head of the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand and Chair of the
DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences. He is South Africa’s leading researcher on Devonian
(420-359 million year old) marginal marine and terrestrial ecosystems, as well as Early Vertebrates
(ancient fish and early four legged creatures). The Late Devonian Waterloo Farm lagerstätten
(exceptional fossil site) outside Grahamstown, continues to be his
main focus of research.
King of amaXhosa at Albany Museum
Young poets Akhona Mafani and Esethu Siyolo were thrilled to have the opportunity to honour King Zwelonke Mpendulo C “Aaah Zwelonke” Sigcawu during his visit to Grahamstown recently.
Mafani, who is studying computer courses at the Eastern Cape Academy of Technology, and Siyolo, who is in Grade 10 at Nathaniel Nyaluza Secondary School, both live in Vukani, are both active poets, and both admire the amaXhosa king greatly.
At the opening of two exhibitions at the Albany History Museum, The Amaxhosa Kingdom, and The Landscapes of the Eastern Cape, they performed their iimbongi for the king, directly after his own official imbongi introduced him to a VIP audience at the Museum on Wednesday 9 November 2016.
[Wikipedia] Albany, South Africa
Albany, South Africa (also known as Cape Borders, Cape Frontier, Settler Country, and Western Region) was a district in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Grahamstown was traditionally the administrative capital, cultural centre and largest town of the Albany district.
The area was previously known as the 'Zuurveld' by migrating Boer farmers in the late 18th century, and it lay near the boundary between the Cape Colony and the traditional Xhosa lands to the east. The 1820 Settlers were instrumental in settling and farming the district and giving it some of its distinctive local culture. The ANC government merged the Albany area with the large Xhosa township of Alice as the municipal area of 'Cacadu' [1].
C-SPAN Cities Tour - Albany: Exhibit at the New York State Museum
The New York State Museum holds the world's largest collection of artifacts gathered from Ground Zero following the 9/11 attacks in NYC. Walk through that day and those that followed with the museum's director.
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Josephs museum tour in Albany
well this is my newest character Joseph who is going to show you some of the things he saw in the Albany Museum. He saw many things that day, and I will try to get most of them. I hope you all enjoy the video, and there clearly are more on the way, unless I die of course. Hopefully that won't happen though. Santor who is the camera man, did ruin some of these clips by laughing, however he is a very good camera man, and will be helping me make more of these videos. also I'm srry if it's a little fuzzy at times, but that's because the places we were in were either too bright or too dark, plus we were moving, and my camera only gets 5 mega pixels in camera mode.
Strauss brings modern and contemporary art to NAF
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce its participation in this year’s National Arts Festival in Grahamstown (28 June – 8 July 2018), where it will present an exhibition of modern and contemporary art in the Alumni Gallery of the Albany History Museum. The exhibition is curated by art specialist Matthew Partridge and will present a selection of works on offer at the company’s forthcoming sales.
The exhibition will include two pastels by much-loved landscape painter and auction stalwart J.H. Pierneef, an interior scene by pioneering New Group painter Freida Lock and a stirring Cape landscape by the late modern Erik Laubscher. Works by contemporary artists Matthew Hindley, Banele Khoza, Mary Sibande, Minnette Vári and Diane Victor will be shown in conjunction with these recognized past masters.
The contemporary selection also includes a large-scale portrait by painter Mustafa Maluka, which will go on offer at Strauss & Co’s specialist contemporary art auction in February 2019. Successfully inaugurated this past February, Strauss & Co’s contemporary art sale is the first sale of its kind in South Africa dedicated only to contemporary art.
Matthew Partridge will host public walkabouts of the exhibition on 29 and 30 June, in both instances at noon, and again on 6 July at 4pm. Partridge will also present a public lecture in the NELM Seminar Room at the Monument on 6 July at noon. His lecture forms part of the National
Arts Festival’s Think!Fest programme and looks at aspects of South Africa’s thriving secondary market, notably the growth of contemporary art at auction.
Strauss brings modern and contemporary art to NAF
Strauss & Co is pleased to announce its participation in this year’s National Arts Festival in Grahamstown (28 June – 8 July 2018), where it will present an exhibition of modern and contemporary art in the Alumni Gallery of the Albany History Museum. The exhibition is curated by art specialist Matthew Partridge and will present a selection of works on offer at the company’s forthcoming sales.
The exhibition will include two pastels by much-loved landscape painter and auction stalwart J.H. Pierneef, an interior scene by pioneering New Group painter Freida Lock and a stirring Cape landscape by the late modern Erik Laubscher. Works by contemporary artists Matthew Hindley, Banele Khoza, Mary Sibande, Minnette Vári and Diane Victor will be shown in conjunction with these recognized past masters.
The contemporary selection also includes a large-scale portrait by painter Mustafa Maluka, which will go on offer at Strauss & Co’s specialist contemporary art auction in February 2019. Successfully inaugurated this past February, Strauss & Co’s contemporary art sale is the first sale of its kind in South Africa dedicated only to contemporary art.
Matthew Partridge will host public walkabouts of the exhibition on 29 and 30 June, in both instances at noon, and again on 6 July at 4pm. Partridge will also present a public lecture in the NELM Seminar Room at the Monument on 6 July at noon. His lecture forms part of the National
Arts Festival’s Think!Fest programme and looks at aspects of South Africa’s thriving secondary market, notably the growth of contemporary art at auction.
Money straight down the drain
A cool black (yellow) hole machine in Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa
MAKHANDA, THE RETURN (Ukuza kukaNxele)
A Xhosa warrior and prophet who, during the Xhosa Wars, led an attack against the British garrison at Grahamstown in 1819.
Recollections exhibit back up at Albany Museum of Art
New York State Museum, 9/11 Exhibition...
SciFest.wmv
This is a short piece on laser beams and their usefulness. It was taken in during the Grahamstown SciFest 2011.
On the cusp of the Eremozoic- the age of loneliness
26 Plant Portraits from the Albany Center, Eastern Cape, South Africa by Dez Weeks. These images were presented at the Grahamstown 2009 Arts Festival, an exhibition at the Albany Museum. WalkerDigital scanned and printed from transparencies. The original framed exhibition prints & limited series prints are available. Video from PowerPoint compilation using Camtasia Studio 6.
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Elizabeth Salt
Grocott’s spoke to Curator-emeritus of the Albany Museum, Fleur Way-Jones, and Rhodes History Professor, Prof. Julia Wells, about the recent defacement of the Elizabeth Salt monument in High Street. The monument is dedicated to settler women and portrays Elizabeth Salt carrying a keg of gunpowder through the ranks of amaXhosa warriors during the battle of Grahamstown. The story goes that during the battle of Grahamstown, when the English troops had run out of gunpowder, Elizabeth Salt carried a keg of gunpowder disguised as a baby to them while the amaXhosa warriors let her pass through their ranks unharmed because she was a woman. The recent defacement includes a trail of red spray-paint from the keg of gunpowder to the feet of the amaXhosa warriors.
Skybok: Rat & Parrot (Grahamstown, South Africa)
59 New Street, Grahamstown.
Open daily 11am-10:30pm.