A DELIVERY FROM THE STATES A MESSENGER BOYS’ LONG JOURNEY TO PRETORIA
By: Jan van den Bos, Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Cultural History During the 1890s, the ‘messenger boy’ was a familiar figure, carrying both joyful and sorrowful news. The birth of a child or the death of a beloved one was
THAUMA: HOW MUSEUMS REMEMBER THEMSELVES
By: David Rilley-Harris, Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History (DNMMH) Thauma – a way to another world. (Picture: DITSONG: National Museum of Military History. The Rand Regiments Memorial). If you have ever paused before an object in a museum and felt an