First outing for new Go Wild Mobile Museum
Mobile Museum to help educate disadvantaged schools.
To honour International Museum Day, Durban Natural Science Museum presented its custom-made, brand-new mobile museum, Go Wild, formally for the first time at Tholulwazi Secondary School in lower Molweni.
This is the first of its kind with the purpose to inform and educate and encourage learners not to live for now and destroy everything,but to preserve our heritage for future generations so that future generations will know what our animals look like.
The new mobile museum makes it possible for museum resources to reach under-served and outlying areas by visiting schools and communities throughout eThekwini Muncipality offering both curriculum-linked and public education programmes and is both an effective aid to support formal education and a tool to develop interest, knowledge and understanding of life and environmental sciences to the widest possible audience.
“The Go Wild Mobile Museum will help our learners. And will help with teaching theory and inspiring career choices in the sciences,” said Mr Thamsanqa Chaula: Principal of Tholulwazi Secondary School.
Cllr S M Mchunu of Ward 9 added, “We are happy that the Go Wild Mobile Museum is available for learners in the semi-rural areas like Molweni. It will be good for the learners to see and engage with the exhibits and learn about the animals. We are keen to know and understand what is in a museum, but it is sometimes difficult and expensive for the schools to send learners to the city to the Natural Science Museum, so we are very happy that the mobile museum can come to us. It is great that the city is investing in the education of our young people.”
