1. A piece of German ingenuity

Factory-produced clocks were first credited to the Lenzkirch Uhrenfabrik, located in the small town of Lenzkirch in the German Black Forest region. Lenzkirch is one of the finest German clockmakers and was founded in 1849 in Lenzkirch, Germany by Eduard Hauser (1825-1900). In 1851, Eduard Hauser and Ignaz Schoepperle joined forces with 5 other men, Franz Josef Faller, Paul Tritscheller, Johann Nikolaus Tritscheller, Joseph Wiest and Nickolas Rogy to form the Aktien-gesesellschaft fur Uhrenfabrication, Lenzkirch (Stock Holder Corporation for Clock Manufacturing, Lenzkirch).

Taxonomists undertake the exciting task of discovering and describing new species across the earth, encompassing microorganisms, plants, and animals. Employing a system of binomial nomenclature, they assign names to species, drawing inspiration from people, localities, descriptive terms, or inventive words.

Father Frans Claerhout’s famous series, Christ and the other person, is currently on exhibition at Oliewenhuis Art Museum, a satellite of the National Museum.

This beautiful series of 25 oil paintings is on display in the Annex at Oliewenhuis Art Museum from 1 December 2023 to 18 February 2024. The series is on permanent loan to Oliewenhuis Art Museum from The Congregation of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

WINNER Category A: Culna 77 – Nasional Museum, Bloemfontein

Congratulations to the CULNA Magazine editorial team for receiving the 2023 award for best design for a publication. The artwork for Volume 77 was done by Carien van Eck who is the Museum’s graphic designer. The Museum has an in-house award-winning Design Department.

What was everyday life like for Bloemfontein’s black people under apartheid? For young people, especially those born after 1994, it will be hard to imagine life under apartheid laws and regulations. Many elderly black residents of Bloemfontein’s old townships, especially Batho and Bochabela, still have vivid but unpleasant and often traumatic memories of a time in their lives when they were subjected to apartheid discrimination.