The District Six Museum
An Ordinary People's Place
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11666972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valmont Layne (0000-0001-7920-1742, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-62 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Public Historian (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-3433 • E-ISSN: 1533-8576 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/tph.2008.30.1.53 |
| OpenAlex | W2089380952 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
This article describes the founding and work of the District Six Museum. Under the apartheid system, District Six was declared a white-only area. Many residents were forcibly removed, and almost all of the buildings were bulldozed. The District Six Museum was launched in 1994 to keep alive the memories of District Six and displaced people everywhere. It is a space where the forgotten understandings of the past are resuscitated, and where different interpretations of that past are facilitated. The museum also assists in the reconstitution of the community of District Six and Cape Town
Archaeology · Art · Cape · Geography · Media studies · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Urban district · Visual arts · White (mutation · Work (physics · Engineering · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · South African History and Culture
Thoughts on a Changing Landscape for Research Archiving in the Cloud Era
Public Histories in South Africa
Long Street
Toward an understanding of archives as a feature of collective memory
Ecomuseums in China
Countering Colonial Memory Through Public and Popular Culture in Cape Town
The Ruins of Cape Town’s District Six
Two-dimensional engagements
Historical Memory at El Salvador's Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |