Oliewenhuis Art Museum

PELMAMA at Oliewenhuis Art Museum 2007 Bloemfontein opening 1

PELMAMA at OLIEWENHUIS Art Museum Bloemfontein - guests arriving for the opening on 9th July, 2007

PELMAMA Permanent Art Collection at OLIEWENHUIS Art Museum, Bloemfontein 2007 speeches

PELMAMA at OLIEWENHUIS in 2007 - Part 1 of speeches

10 Best Tourist Attractions you MUST SEE in Bloemfontein, South Africa | 2019

Bloemfontein (; Afrikaans: [ˈblumfɔntəi̯n]; Afrikaans and Dutch fountain of flowers or blooming fountain; also known as Bloem) is the capital city of the province of Free State of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals (the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital) and is the seventh largest city in South Africa.


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The rating information was taken from Google Maps and the list was last updated on 16th March, 2019:
1: Windmill Casino
2: Toyota Stadium
3: Boeremark
4: Hoffman Square
5: Oliewenhuis Art Museum
6: Free State National Botanical Garden
7: Bloemfontein Zoo
8: National Museum Bloemfontein
9: Anglo-Boer War Museum
10: Cheetah Experience

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Ayanda Mabulu - Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein

Ayanda Mabulu's introduction at the launch of #Amandla![Re]form,Debate,[Re]dress? catalogue at the Oliewenhuis Art Museum in Bloemfontein on Thursday the 9th of February 2017.

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Oliewenhuis Art Museum holds exhibition titled 'Terra or Earth'

An exhibition exploring the relationship between human beings and place, space and land can be seen at the Oliewenhuis Art Museum in Bloemfontein.
Titled Terra, or Earth - brings together works by 22 South African artists.


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Women struggles art exhibition on at Oliewenhuis Art Museum

A visually impressive art exhibition which focuses on women struggles can be seen at the Oliewenhuis Art Museum in Bloemfontein. Many of the works on display, depict forms of abuse suffered by women.

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Bloemfontein

Bloemfontein (; ; Afrikaans and Dutch fountain of flowers or blooming fountain; also known as Bloem) is the capital city of the province of Free State of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals (the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital) and is the seventh largest city in South Africa. Situated at an altitude of above sea level, the city is home to approximately 520,000 residents and forms part of the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality which has a population of 747,431.

The city of Bloemfontein hosts the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, the Franklin Game Reserve, , the Maselspoort Resort and the . The city hosts numerous museums, including the National Women's Monument, the Anglo-Boer War Museum, the National Museum, and the Oliewenhuis Art Museum

Bloemfontein also hosts sub-Saharan Africa's first digital planetarium, the Naval Hill Planetarium and Boyden Observatory, an astronomical research observatory erected by Harvard University.

Bloemfontein is popularly and poetically known as the city of roses, for its abundance of these flowers and the annual rose festival held there. The city's Sesotho name is Mangaung, meaning place of cheetahs.

The origin of the city's name is disputed. It is likely borrowed from the Dutch words bloem (flower) and fontein (fountain), meaning fountain of flowers. Popular legends include an ox named Bloem owned by Rudolphus Martinus Brits, one of the pioneer farmers that was taken by a lion near a fount...

Visit SANBI's Free State National Botanical Garden in Bloemfontein

This garden, on the outskirts of Bloemfontein, spans a valley between picturesque dolerite koppies. The Garden covers 70 hectares, and is home to about 400 species of plants, mainly from the Free State, Northern Cape and Lesotho. The natural areas of the Garden are a haven for wildlife, including 144 bird species, 54 reptile species and about 32 mammal species.

12 Hours in #FREESTATE National Museum - Bloemfontein in #SouthAfrica

Over these past 7 Years I've had the opportunity (thru hard work of course ) to travel across South Africa. And with that I have discovered this great Land. Africa has proven to be the cradle of mankind. And we have past history that documents that, Across Social Media and the Internet there is news most true and guiding with a great rise in fake news and misleading information, and there is also the FACT. and fact will always remain history as time moves on. Here is a short video of my trip. I learnt some interesting facts about South Africa's History and our Solar System's origin. This is also the town, Bloemfontein where both Leading political parties of South Africa were formed. There is 12 Years to Go. We have great work to do across our Planet, as well as here in #SouthAfrica
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After moving to Bloemfontein in January of 2017 and researching the arts scene locally, Karen Brusch saw a gap for the creation of an innovative support-base for local artists. Few possibilities exist in the visual arts in the Free State, and in Bloemfontein in particular. There is only one commercial gallery space and the national Oliewenhuis Art Museum. Consequently, there are few exhibition opportunities for local artists. Recently the Phatshoane Henney New Breed Art Competition and the launch of the National Art Bank in Bloemfontein have opened further opportunities. However, the prospects remain numbered, and artists with enormous potential leave Bloemfontein for larger cities providing better support structures. Those that remain, scramble for ways to survive and often abandon their dreams of becoming full-time and established artists.
A further inhibiting sense that many artists in central South Africa experience, is that they are marginalised from the rest of the country, with Cape Town and Johannesburg dominating the visual arts spaces and culture. Free State artists are judged for focusing on three subject themes – cattle, farmers and farmland, clearly a terrible stereotype. After much research, it became clear that the local scene is just as complex, innovative, exploratory and engaging as anywhere else in the country; and that perceptions need to be shifted. These observations lead to the realisation that there is a need for a new institution – the dream of a moving collective, not a gallery.
Art collectives have become popular both nationally and abroad, as an inventive response to particular socio-economic circumstances. One can see the obvious advantage for groups of creatives to collaborate and work on large-scale projects together. Collectives provide a platform for artists to brainstorm projects en masse, raise the funds as a group and oversee the fruition of their creative labour, collectively. What if collectives were created in each region of South Africa, opening a more vibrant and democratic art-world, no longer dominated by our economic powerhouse cities?
Like a gallery, the Free State Art Collective has a growing stable of artists whose work will be promoted and sold via the brand. But unlike a gallery, there is no tie to a specific exhibition space. Instead, the collective is mobile, working through the unique curation of events and via exposure nationally at established art shows.
The Free State Art Collective’s main purpose is to develop and sustain the careers of all the artists who belong as members and to raise awareness of talent in the Free State, thereby developing a more visible national presence. The Collective also aims to mentor emerging artists and to provide a network of information and opportunity. Workshops will be offered by professionals, providing further skills and conceptual development training, keeping Free Sate artists connected with national trends and new innovations in art production and practice.
Over the coming 5 years, the Free State Art Collective will grow to be an 80 member strong network of visual artists from central South Africa, with a substantial voice and an opportunity for dialogue with the rest of the country.
Please contact Karen Brusch of Open Sky Movement on +27 84 017 0728 or openskymovement@gmail.com

Bloemfontein National Museum

So you like to see fossils and dinosaur bones and animal skeletons and whatnot? Well you've come to the right place, as we are visiting the National Museum in Bloemfontein. We also make a quick stop at Oliewenhuis Art Museum, but that's not such a hit.

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Bloemfontein Travel Guide - South Africa Moments of Joy

Bloemfontein fountain of flowers or blooming fountain; also known as Bloem) is the capital city of the province of Free State of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals (the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital) and is the seventh largest city in South Africa.

The city of Bloemfontein hosts the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, the Franklin Game Reserve, Naval Hill, the Maselspoort Resort and the Sand du Plessis Theatre. The city hosts numerous museums, including the National Women's Monument, the Anglo-Boer War Museum, the National Museum, and the Oliewenhuis Art Museum. Bloemfontein also host sub-Saharan Africa's first digital planetarium, the Naval Hill Planetarium and Boyden Observatory, an astronomical research observatory erected by Harvard University.

Free State Provincial Government building Bloemfontein forms part of the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality, which was upgraded from a Local Municipality in 2011. Bloemfontein is located in central South Africa on the southern edge of the Highveld at an elevation of 1,400 metres (4,600 ft), bordering on the semi-arid region of the Karoo. The area is generally flat with occasional hills (koppies in Afrikaans) and the general vegetation is Highveld grassland. Bloemfontein experiences a semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSk ), with hot summer days and cooler, dry winters, often with frosts.

Bloemfontein suburbs include Heidedal to the east and southeast, Bain's Vlei, Woodland Hills Wildlife Estate, Brandwag, Ehrlich Park, Fauna, Fichardt Park, Fleurdal, Gardenia Park, Generaal De Wet, Hospitaalpark, Kiepersol, Lourier Park, Park West, Pellissier, Uitsig, Universitas, Westdene, Wilgehof and Willows to the south of the city. To the west of Bloemfontein, you will find Langenhoven Park. To the north you will find Arboretum, Baysvalley, Bayswater, Dan Pienaar, Helicon Heights, Heuwelsig, Hillsboro, Hillside, Hilton, Naval Hill, Navalsig, Noordhoek, Pentagon Park, Panorama Park, and Waverley. To the north east you will find Roodewal and Vallombrosa. The predominantly black suburbs are; Rocklands, Phahameng, Phelindaba, Bloemanda, Bochabela and the most historic Batho where the Maphikela House (where the African National Congress started) is situated.botshabelo and thaba nchu townships

The Free State Stadium and the surrounding sports complex is the main sports venue in the city and province. The venue was the hosting stadium of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa matches played in Bloemfontein. There are several other sports venues in the city, however, including facilities belonging to the university, schools and sports clubs.other stadium's in the city is Mangaung Oval, Dr. Petrus Molemela Stadium and Clive Solomons Stadium.

Every year Bloemfontein, the 'City of Roses', celebrates the 'Bloemfontein Rose Festival', known also as the 'Mangaung Rose Festival', in October—the cool month in which roses in the Free State bloom best. Bloemfontein is well connected with rail.It is located on the most important rail junction between Johannesburg and Cape Town, with daily trains to Port Elizabeth, East London and Johannesburg. Bloemfontein has two airports New Tempe Aerodrome and Bram Fischer International Airport. New Tempe Aerodrome has no scheduled flights, it is used as a training facility for aviators and schools. Bram Fischer International Airport has scheduled flights to all South Africa's major cities.

A lot to see in Bloemfontein such as :

Free State National Botanical Garden
Oliewenhuis Art Museum
National Museum Bloemfontein
Anglo Boer War Museum
Cheetah Experience
Bloemfontein Zoo
Loch Logan
National Afrikaans Literary Museum and Research Centre
Hoffman Square
Nelson Mandela Statue
Naval Hill Nature Reserve
Fourth Raadsaal
Bagamoya Wildlife Estate
National Womens Memorial & War Museum

( Bloemfontein - South Africa ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Bloemfontein. Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Bloemfontein - South Africa

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Ditsong National Museum, Pretoria✔

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The Ditsong National Museum of Natural History AKA The Transvaal Museum

The Transvaal Museum is South Africa's leading natural history museum. It provides a memorable experience for the whole family and is open 7 days a week.

Transvaal Museum Mammal Hall in Pretoria The Transvaal Museum was founded in 1892. The museum changed locations a number of times as its collection grew. By 1925 the museum moved to its current location, a beautiful sandstone building on Paul Kruger Street. The entrance of this imposing building is decorated with the skeletons of dinosaurs and even a whale.
Some of the collection of the museum, which remained behind in its former location in Boom Street, became known as the National Cultural History Museum in 1964.

The museum currently houses a vast taxidermy collection as well as a number of fossils.

There are four exhibition halls:

Genesis of Life I and II provides a journey through the development of the animal kingdom, from single-celled organisms, right through the human beings. The Genesis of Life II hall is also known as the Mammal Hall.

The Austin Roberts Bird Hall holds a collection of Southern African birds, arranged according to their number in the Roberts Bird Guide. General information on migration, feeding and flight of birds can also be seen in this very well arranged hall.
The Geoscience Museum is a comprehensive collection of different minerals, crystals, and gemstones in Southern Africa, provided by the Council for Geoscience. Where such minerals can be found, as well as what they are used for is thoroughly described in this hall.

There is also a Discovery Centre on the property which provides a hands-on experience to make learning about nature and science more enjoyable.

Night Tours, Science Magic shows and a behind the scenes tour of the Research Department are provided.

Launch of the National Art Bank in Bloemfontein

The National Art Bank forms part of a series of many programmes under the Mzansi Golden Economy (MGE) strategy which promotes job creation and seeks to increase the contribution of arts and culture to sustainable economic development. A Joint Interim steering committee and a Selection Committee was formed to help with the selection of the artworks that will be exhibited at the National Art Bank. The exhibition features works of emerging and established artists such as Audrey Anderson, Ilené Bothma, Sandile Goje to name a few. To tell us more we are joined by Project manager Brenton Maart.

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Women's Monument to (25,000!) Anglo-Boer War Concentration Camp Victims (Bloemfontein, South Africa)

(Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa)

The first concentration camps were in ~1900 and almost exclusively White-on-White. Did you know that? Neither did I.

In Bloemfontein South Africa, just 20-30 years after their defeat/surrender in the Anglo-Boer War, the (mostly Dutch-derived, the first boat-full of them having arrived in 1652, ~250 years prior!) Afrikaner Boer (meaning farmer) people still living there set up this Women's Monument to remember the (mostly) women and kids who died of starvation, thirst and/or sickness in British-run concentration camps. (I s$%t you not!)

See the Boer fighters were organized into essentially-guerrilla commando militias. And they kept kicking the butts of the British who out-numbered and out-resourced them 10-to-1.

But while they were away out butt-kicking someplace, the wives were back on the farms taking care of things. So the British said screw this, and just burned/dynamited the farms, killed the livestock, and took the wives and kids hostage in these concentration camps.

This unplugged the Boer fighters provisions-wise, but that wasn't really the whole plan.

Taking the wives and kids hostage in this way, and passive-aggressively allowing them to die-off in bureaucratic fashion (Oh dang, we ran out of food for the prisoners again. --sound familiar?) not just humiliated the men emotionally and spiritually (worse than unbelievers, right?), but of course gave them dang good reasons to give up and surrender, and quickly, which they did.

You might just have to agree that genocide worked. But try not to think about it.

No wait. I mean: YES PLEASE DO try to think about it!

(And what if they'd thought of this when fighting General Washington and his people in the Revolutionary War, hmm?)

Voortrekkers monument Pretoria

Visit Voortrekkers monument Pretoria on a rainy day. The monument describes the big Trek of the Voortrekkers north and the fight with the Zulu that ended in the battle of Blood River 16 Dec 1838
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Take it Back - Dan Lebowitz
Running Through Aisles - The Barr Brothers
Run - Max Surla/Media Right Productions
Battle Ground - Silent Partner
Epic Battle Speech - Wayne Jones
Intentions - Anno Domini Beats
Simon's Song - Dan Lebowitz

Heritage Day

Sibongile Jali, assistant librarian at the KZN Museum, shares her thoughts on what heritage day means to her.