Day 3: Linda Fortune, former District Six Museum curator and author, gave us a special Sunday tour of the museum and told us about her personal history. Linda lived in District Six, a vibrant and diverse neighborhood, until her family and most other residents were forcibly removed in 1971 as part of apartheid's regime of segregation. The nieghborhood was demolished. Very little was left behind, and not much has been built since. This museum is a monument to the memory of the community that once existed there. Inundated with information and emotions, in my journal I described the museum as "a building decorated entirely with memories - art and artefacts, inscriptions, poems, soundclips, photographs, street signs..."
Sunday, October 22, 2006
District Six Museum
Day 3: Linda Fortune, former District Six Museum curator and author, gave us a special Sunday tour of the museum and told us about her personal history. Linda lived in District Six, a vibrant and diverse neighborhood, until her family and most other residents were forcibly removed in 1971 as part of apartheid's regime of segregation. The nieghborhood was demolished. Very little was left behind, and not much has been built since. This museum is a monument to the memory of the community that once existed there. Inundated with information and emotions, in my journal I described the museum as "a building decorated entirely with memories - art and artefacts, inscriptions, poems, soundclips, photographs, street signs..."
