Cape Town: The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) closes for 14 days! [update]

update (27 July 2021): The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town has reopened. The current opening hours are Thursdays to Sundays, 10:00 to 18:00.

update (12 July 2021): The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town, the world's largest museum of contemporary African art, has announced that it will be closed until 25 July 2021 due to the extension of the adjusted Level 4 lockdown to contain the impact of the third wave of Covid-19 infections nationally

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town, the world's largest museum of contemporary African art, has announced that it is temporarily closing doors. According to the museum, this is "to ensure the health and safety of our staff and visitors, and in keeping with the government regulations for COVID-19 lockdown Level 4". The Zeitz MOCAA is set to reopen on 11 July 2021.
The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) is located in Cape Town's V&A Waterfront, on the banks of Table Bay overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

Coronavirus pandemic: The Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town has temporarily closed! [update]

update (31 July 2020): The Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town has announced that the Museum remains temporarily closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Necessary measures to welcome back visitors safely are currently getting installed. 

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town, the largest museum of contemporary African art in the world, has temporarily closed its doors to the public on 17 March 2020 until further notice in light of recent developments regarding the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The re-opening of the Zeitz MOCAA will continuously be assessed and evaluated. General admission tickets already booked for will either be fully refunded or accepted for entry when the museum re-opens. We'll keep you posted!

Cape Town: Zeitz MOCAA launches world-first museum Instagram map and guide!

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town, in partnership with advertising agency M&C Saatchi Africa, has launched the world’s first museum Insta Map. The constantly changing and immersive map on Instagram guides visitors through the galleries of the seven-floored building in Cape Town's Silo District. In the highlights section of the Instagram page @zeitzmocaa.map, visitors can embark on a 2-hour tour through the Museum, get some insights into the latest exhibit, check out the guide to Zeitz MOCAA's most Instagrammable spots and find out what's available in the store.



Visitors can either scan the QR code at the entrance of the Zeitz MOCAA or just go to the Instagram page @zeitzmocaa.map directly on their phones.

Cape Town: Zeitz MOCAA to increase ticket prices!

Africa's largest museum of contemporary African art, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa ("Zeitz MOCAA") in Cape Town, is set to increase ticket prices. Effective 01 September 2018, the new admission prices will be the following:

• Single day admission (for adults) = R190
• Annual (general) Membership = R270
• Pensioners discounted annual membership = R195
• Children under the age of 18 will still enjoy free admission all year round, and #AfricaWednesday remains free for African citizens every Wednesday, between 10:00 and 13:00
  

The Zeitz MOCAA, located in the V&A Waterfront, was recently named of one of Time Magazine's "World's Greatest Places". The museum building was constructed from the conversion of the 57m tall historic Grain Silo. The 9,500m² complex consists of nine floors with 6 000 m² dedicated to gallery spaces and 3 500 m² to site specific exhibition spaces. The Zeitz MOCAA was opened in September 2017.

Cape Town: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) will open in 2017!

udpate (14 Sept 2017): The official ribbon cutting ceremony will take place on Friday, 22 September 2017 at 11h00.

The largest art museum to be built in Africa in more than 100 years, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) in Cape Town, will open in September 2017. The museum, a partnership between the V&A Waterfront and Jochen Zeitz, is the first major museum in Africa dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. When completed, the Zeitz MOCAA will have nine floors, with 6 000 m² dedicated to gallery spaces and 3 500 m² to site specific exhibition spaces.



During the grand opening weekend (22-25 September 2017), no entrance fee will be charged. The actual entrance fee to the Zeitz MOCAA is still beeing finalised (it will R180/adult), but it is already certain that visitors under the age of 18 will enter free all year round (confirmed) and that South Africans and visitors from the African continent will get free entry on Wednesday mornings (confirmed). During the "Late Night Fridays", which will be held at least once a month, entry will be half price for all. ("First Fridays": Half price admission between 16:00 – 21:00 every first Friday of the month.) The opening times will be daily from 10:00 to 18:00 every day except Tuesdays. The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) is located in the historic Grain Silos at Cape Town's famous V&A Waterfront.

South Africa's first museum of contemporary African art to open in Cape Town (Nov 2013) >>

South Africa's first museum of contemporary African art to open in Cape Town

The V&A Waterfront and Jochen Zeitz, a German art collecter and entrepreneur, yesterday announced a unique partnership to create South Africa's first museum of contemporary African art at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town. The museum, which will be located in the historic Grain Silos at the waterfront, will be named the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) after the Zeitz Collection, which will form the museum's founding collection.
Zeitz MOCAA will comprise over 9,500m² and will be spread over nine floors. It will focus on collecting, preserving, researching and exhibiting cutting-edge contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. Through an entire floor dedicated to education, the museum will develop a new art-loving, museum-going audience. The architect for the Zeitz MOCAA will be announced in February 2014, and it is expected to open its doors to visitors at the end of 2016. The inaugural exhibition, which opens at the Zeitz MOCAA Pavilion on 23 November 2013, will present the work of Swazi artist Nandipha Mntambo.