Tag: “visitor Centre”

Mohau Centre visits Maropeng

Bianca Bothma

Maropeng is very proud that in the past five years we have welcomed more than 500 000 people to the Cradle of Humankind, who have come to learn about evolution and the history of the Earth.

In December 2010, another 45 children from the Mohau Centre, a children’s home in Atteridgeville, visited as part of the Maropeng Education Programme supported by the Cradle of Humankind Trust.

Discovering Maropeng’s architecture

The architecture of Maropeng, designed by GAPP Architects and MMA (Mphethi Morojele Architects), was based on the theme of discovery. When you approach the site, you see seven concrete fingers or 14m high concrete columns, signifying the centre, which moves in and out of sight along its approach. The concrete fingers have words on them that hint at the major themes of the exhibition, such as “Imagine”, “Explore”, “Contemplate”, and “Discover”.

Atlas of world architecture features Maropeng and Sterkfontein Caves visitor centres

The Maropeng and Sterkfontein Caves visitor centres are both featured in the first edition of the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture, published in 2008.

The Phaidon Atlas includes details of 1037 of the world’s most outstanding, unusual and remarkable works of architecture, built since January 2000.

Maropeng celebrates 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth on February 12, 2009, Maropeng will be holding a poster exhibition entitled Darwin, Origins and Africa, in conjunction with the Institute of Human Origins and the Origins Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Darwin’s theory of evolution – that all organisms adapt and evolve or alternatively die out through a process he called “natural selection” – is one of the most influential scientific theories of all time, and remains the basis for modern biology.

Maropeng features in Wits alumni magazine

The January 2009 issue of the Wits Review – the quarterly magazine received by over 20 000 University of the Witwatersrand alumni – features Maropeng. Twice!

Join the call for better road signage to Maropeng

As a UNESCO World Heritage Site, good signage to Maropeng is critical – and the existing signage is completely inadequate.