Museum closes for repairs, launches new sessions

Rhodes Cottage Museum in Muizenberg is closed for most of June for electrical rewiring.

- ERIN CARELSE

Still, the team is using the downtime to launch a new project: storytelling sessions designed to bring history to life, with a few unexpected twists.

Curator of both the Rhodes Cottage Museum and Het Posthuys, Tony Rozemeyer, said work at Rhodes Cottage started in early June and is expected to take about two weeks.

The museum's usual winter schedule — closed Mondays to Wednesdays — remains in place until mid-August.

Once the rewiring is complete, upgrades will continue with the tea room and the adjacent Posthuys.

In the meantime, Mr Rozemeyer and his team are preparing to host their first storytelling sessions at both Rhodes Cottage and Het Posthuys, the two heritage sites under his care.

“We're ready to begin within the next two weeks,” he said.