Museum Africa — Attraction in Gauteng

Yesterday I was in great spirits with my lady friend, I decided to take her to your museum and enjoy the facilities, when we got to the museum I met a friendly old man by the door who asked us to register for us to enter, we followed protocol and entered.

When we got to a floor with an barber stool, we noticed a lady security guard standing in that floor. I greeted her and myself and my lady friend continued walking around and viewing the historical pieces.

At some point myself and my lady friend held hands and my lady friend gave me a kiss on the cheek.

This security guard shouted at us and said "YOU CANNOT DO THAT HERE."

That is when me and my friend approached her and asked her what the issue was. She clearly had an issue about two women holding hands and enjoying a day out at Museum Africa, she proceeded to threaten us and call a male security guard to kick us out.

I am appalled that in 2018, people still feel the need to police others because of their sexuality.

Aren't museums supposed to be free spaces that allow people to be themselves? Are your staff not meant to be open minded?

Please remedy this, because I would love to visit again but if you have this kind of staff, this will create a bad name for...

Worst museum I have ever visited. See it for yourself and complain so the lazy and incompetent curator will be fired and replaced with someone able to create and run a proper museum.

The displays were awful , second rate with very little information. It looked like someone dumped their junk from the garage in a large open space.

It is called Museum Africa yet there was NOTHING about Africa the vast continent with over 50 countries and so much history!!!! There was very little artefacts and considering how many archaeological discoveries there has been made over the last three centuries, it was embarrassing seeing what was on display.

There was nothing about the creativity which has come from Africa, all the word famous artists and musicians, writers etc.

I don't know if it was better for the World Cup in 2010, I hope it was because really I was mortified to have brought my family from overseas there. I am saying this as someone who has visited over 100 museums...

I managed to spend 2 hours here but I felt quite underwhelmed and that disappointed me. The artefacts and samples in the museum were intriguing but it's quite disorganised and it just seems like staff don't know what to do when visitors come. I was directed to toilets that did not work (probably not intended for visitors) and I was told I couldn't sit on a particular bench because apparently it was for staff only. A lot of the areas in the left side of the museum are empty and for some wings, you don't know where to start. The geology museum was a little interesting but the maze layout and dark painted walls in that area is worrying to navigate alone. This is a very important place as it holds a lot for people to learn about our natural and cultural heritage however the place needs to be developed. We don't know how long these display cases and areas have been empty for and I'd hate to return 2 years from now and find...