The Darwin Exhibition: Darwin and the Cape, opened at the Iziko South African Museum on Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town on 23 November and runs until April 2010. It is one of the many events celebrated in South Africa this bicentennial year. Professor Chris Stringer Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and world renowned palaeontologist from London’s Natural History Museum, opened the exhibition and delivered the Nelson Mandela Science lecture at the University of the Western Cape the following day.

Focusing on Darwin and his visit to the Cape in 1836 presents a unique opportunity to reclaim this heritage and also introduce the public and learners to issues of science and local history that they could identify with more readily.

The Darwin ‘story’ brings this remarkable scientific thinker into South Africa and into the present day.

Darwin and the Cape is a collaborative project with Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, the Africa Genome Education Institute and Iziko Museums of Cape Town (South African Museum).

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