Resources
The following are articles that and books that you can use for more information about the history of the museum and Lwandle. To access the museum collection for research and educational purposes please contact our collection department at collections@lwandlemuseum.co.za. The museum has a collection of articles around migrant labour, books, research papers, photographs, maps, videos, cassettes, artefaces etc that can be used in the museum premises for reseacrh and education purposes. These can be accesed by making an appointment with our collection team in the email provided.
Noeleen Murray, ‘Working with inconsistencies and discontinuities: Comparing conceptions of heritage and urban design at the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum’, Architecture South Africa, March/April 2007, 30-33.
Leslie Witz, ‘Museums on Cape Town’s township tours’. In N Murray, N Shepherd and M Hall (eds), Desire Lines, (London: Routledge, 2007).
Paul Faber, Ciraj Rassool and Leslie Witz, South African Family Stories: Reflections on an experiment in exhibition making (Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute, 2007).
Vusi Buthelezi and Bongani Mgijima, ‘Mapping museum-community relations in Lwandle’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 32, 4, (2006), 795-806.
Leslie Witz, ‘Transforming Museums on Post-apartheid Tourist Routes’. In I Karp, C Kratz, B Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, C Rassool and G Buntinx (eds), Museums Frictions (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), 107-134.
Vusi Buthelezi: ‘The South African Jewish Museum and the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum: Serving different publics in two community museums in the Western Cape’, MA mini-thesis in Public and Visual history, University of the Western Cape (2005).
Leslie Witz, ‘Revisualizing township tourism in the Western Cape: The Migrant Labour Museum and the re-construction of Lwandle’. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 29, 4 (2011), 371-388.
Leslie Witz, ‘Meetings of world history and public history’ in Douglas Northrop A Companion to World History (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 97-110.
Noeleen Murray and Leslie Witz, ‘Camp Lwandle: Rehabilitating a migrant labour hostel at the seaside’, Social Dynamics: A journal of African studies, 39:1 (2013), 51-74.
Leslie Witz, ‘The making and unmaking of museum communities at the sea side’, in Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy, Healing Through Heritage and Memorialisation, Conference Proceedings (Port Elizabeth: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Occasional Publication Series), 63-73.