All are welcome to enjoy and explore the Art Museum this festive season.

The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum is a nationally renowned tourist attraction and will be open to the public during the festive season.  Come and experience the wealth of culture through the arts.  All are welcome to enjoy and explore the Art Museum.

Our operating hours during this period will be as follows:

We will be open on weekdays as from 9:00 until 16:00.  

We will be open on the following Saturdays as from 9:00 until 13:00: the 7, 14 and 21 December 2024 and all Saturdays in January 2025.

We will unfortunately be closed on public holidays and on Sundays.

The exhibitions that will be on show are:

WHO’S WHO & WHAT’S NEW

Local artists from the Nelson Mandela Bay area were invited to submit an artwork to be on display in the Who’s Who and What’s New? Exhibition. It is a group exhibition run by the Art Museum and designed to celebrate and promote the diversity of art produced in Nelson Mandela Bay.  It aims to encourage new and upcoming artists and to publicise practicing visual artists and visual art groups. 

UNSETTLED

The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum has selected works reflecting on the theme of the South African Visual Art Historians annual conference - Unsettled: Re Collective Memories and Histories of South Africa. The works on exhibition are divided into three sections,  i. reflections about the city of Nelson Mandela Bay, ii. reflections on landscapes and settler/colonial identity, and iii. reflections on displacement and migrant labor. All the artworks on display are from the Art Museum’s permanent collection.

BEHIND THE SCENES

This exhibition presents what happens behind the scenes at the Art Museum in the acquisition, documentation and conservation departments. All the artworks on display are from the Art Museum’s permanent collection.

Please note that entrance is free.

Contact details of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum

Address: 1 Park Drive, Central, Gqeberha 6001

Tel: 041 506 2000

Cell: 079 490 0690

Email: artmuseum@mandelametro.gov.za

Website: www.artmuseum.co.za

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