The role of the museum in raising the profile of African art. Interview with Claire Breukel, Head of Global Patron of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

Decommissioned in the 1990s, the building was identified in 2015 as the perfect place to become the home of a large cultural institution

Claire Breukel, Head of Global Patron of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. Photo © Mikhailia Petersen

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) is one of Africa’s newest and most significant cultural institutions based in Cape Town, South Africa, and opened in September 2017. But its story began several years earlier, when the …