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Five exciting African museums to add to your travel wish list
Nompumelelo Maringa, University of the Witwatersrand Museums don’t often feature on vacation itineraries. That’s probably because people think of these spaces as dull houses of antiquities. But there are few better ways to learn about a country’s history, its people and their cultures than by visiting a museum. Maybe I’m biased: as an archaeozoologist – an archaeologist who studies animal fossils (mostly rodents) – I like digging in the past. And I’ve worked as a museum tour guide, at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Origins Centre Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa. So I love museums, because they archive, preserve and display objects of significant importance. They allow you to delve…


