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The Johannesburg Art Gallery collection was opened to the public in 1910, before the gallery itself had been built, and was housed at the University of the Witwatersrand. The architect, Sir Edwin Lutyens , came to South Africa in 1910 to examine the site and begin the designs, after Lady Florence Phillips had secured funding from the city for a ...
The court building is open to the public who want to attend hearings or view the art gallery in the court atrium. The court also houses an art gallery with a collection of more than 200 contemporary artworks chosen by Constitutional Court Judge Albie Sachs , including works by Gerard Sekoto , William Kentridge , and Cecil Skotnes .
The Carlton Centre is a 50-storey skyscraper and shopping centre located on Commissioner Street in central Johannesburg, South Africa.At 223 metres (732 ft), it was the tallest building in Africa for 46 years from its completion in 1973 until 2019.
Johannesburg is home to the National School of Arts, The University of Witwatersrand's School of the Arts and the South African Ballet Theatre, [115] [116] as well as the Johannesburg Art Gallery [117] and other prominent cultural landmarks, such as the Mary Fitzgerald Square [115] and numerous other museums, theatres, galleries and libraries ...
University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park Campus. Kingsway Campus Auckland Park, also known as APK, is the largest and most populated of the four campuses of the University of Johannesburg. [1] [2] It is also the seat of the administration and governance body of the university. The campus was formerly the only educational campus of the Rand ...
The Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History is housed in the old South African Mint building. [1] The museum was amalgamated with the Pretoria-based Transvaal Museum for Natural History (now the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History and the Johannesburg-based South African National Museum of Military History on 1 April 1999 to form the Northern Flagship Institution (NFI).
The South African National Museum of Military History in Johannesburg was officially opened by Prime Minister Jan Smuts on 29 August 1947 to preserve the history of South Africa's involvement in the Second World War.
The Brenthurst Library is a private repository of Africana in Parktown, Johannesburg built by Harry Oppenheimer in 1984 as he started to disengage from the family's mining interests. [1] It houses a collection of some 20,000 volumes, [ 2 ] including rare manuscripts and documents.