Broadcast excerpt·FRI, 04 SEPT 2026 · 13:25:13–13:27:00 SAST
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So, again, as a research institute, particularly in our topic, our field of human evolution, people are really fascinated with this as a story: like, where do we come from? And South Africa, as I keep saying, has this incredible record of fossils. But most everyday South Africans don't actually know how much of early human evolution is based on what we've learned from South Africa. So, as
UCT, we were very excited to partner with the Ezeko Museum in Cape Town. And we worked very closely for four years in the end with the museum team and the UCT team with a huge additional team of artisans and educators and teachers and school groups and students and illustrators to put together this new exhibit on human evolution, which is called Humanity, and it opens
In I think it was 2023 to really tell the story of who we are and how, like, our collective story as humanity and trace this back over millions of years to answer this question of where did we come from. But we wanted to do it in a way that every visitor can relate to the exhibit and that we didn't have things you know behind glass cases in a very Western museum model. So, yeah, I would really.
Encourage your listeners to go and visit the Iziko Museum and see the exhibit. It's really beautiful, and we've had incredible feedback about how much people can see themselves in the exhibit and how much they loved learning about their own past. So, obviously, as researchers and working with our colleagues at the museum, this was a huge achievement that we were able to redesign a museum experience that people can really relate to and feel a sense of pride as South Africans.
That wow, I didn't know all about this part of our heritage as South Africans. And a great way, I would imagine, to feed the pipeline of new applicants wishing to join the Herry Institute and be part of this kind of work. Yeah. Absolutely. And we worked very closely with the museum educators and teachers because human evolution is part of the CAPS curriculum. I think it's grade 10 and 11. And so we made sure that the museum content.
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