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MANDELA MY LIFE:
THE OFFICIAL EXHIBITION
Mandela My Life: The Official Exhibition,
is a new world class exhibition on Nelson
Mandela’s extraordinary life, produced by
iEC Exhibitions, TEG Live and Melbourne
Museum in collaboration with The Nelson
Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg. A
century on from his birth, this exhibition
poetically and emotively explores the personal
and public life of Nelson Mandela, one of the
most influential men in modern history.
A rich selection of rare personal artefacts, film
footage and documents, combined with newly
created audio-visual pieces form the heart of
the exhibition and offer an insight into the
world that shaped Mandela’s life and journey.
Many of the objects will be on display outside
of South Africa for the first time.
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This official Mandela exhibition will
commemorate, illuminate and most
importantly share Nelson Mandela’s living
legacy with the world.
The exhibition is to be staged in prestigious,
select venues in central city locations around
the world.
Suitable for all ages, this exhibition appeals to
all levels of intrigue, from school groups to the
well informed.
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THE NELSON MANDELA
FOUNDATION:
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The Nelson Mandela Foundation was
established by Mr Mandela in 1999 as his
post-presidential office.
The Foundation office provided the hub for his
vast charitable work, covering a wide range of
endeavours: from building schools to HIV/AIDS
work, from research into education in rural
areas, to peace and reconciliation interventions.
Today the Foundation continues its important
work as the custodian of Mandela’s life and
times and is a committed facilitator of his
living legacy, promoting his lifelong vision of
freedom and equality for all.
Mandela My Life: The Official Exhibition is an
important project to The Foundation in both
raising funds and in sharing and upholding
Mandela’s legacy.
Sello Hatang
CEO, The Nelson Mandela Foundation
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Expertly curated into ten galleries, the
exhibition allows Mandela’s story to be told
in his own words, through the many different
names he was known by throughout his life,
with each gallery representing an important
moment in his growth and identity.
Through a newly created cinematic experience, the entry gallery invites visitors
to feel the power and emotion of one of the most dramatic and significant
moments of Mandela’s life – the moment he puts apartheid on trial. Visitors
experience the original sound recording of Nelson Mandela’s Rivonia Trial
speech in 1964, accompanied by a powerful and immersive new film piece
placing visitors in the courtroom as he delivers his speech.
Discover the covert nature of Mandela’s daily existence and activities during
his period of underground operations when he was dubbed The Black
Pimpernel. The earliest known film footage of Mandela during a break in
the Treason Trial is displayed in this gallery. Mandela was one of 156
defendants, along with members of all other anti-apartheid movements, in a
trial that was designed to dismantle the People’s Congress Alliance and
attack the Freedom Charter.
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GALLERY 1
Explore how and why certain influences shaped a young Mandela with
original objects, film and documents enabling visitors to delve into the
early life of Mandela as he established himself in Johannesburg.
Personal items include photographs of Mandela with his first wife
Evelyn and their children, and his second marriage to Winnie.
This gallery also examines a history of apartheid and the systems of
‘apartness’ that left a lasting impression on Mandela and motivated his
political activism.
GALLERY 3
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Comprised of small cell-like rooms, based on Mandela’s time in prison
including at Robben Island, this gallery explores aspects of Mandela’s
life in prison. Film and photographs of the isolated prison at Robben
Island set the scene; letters between Mandela and his family and audio
of Mandela personally recounting his experiences provide an insight
into the emotional impact of his long imprisonment.
GALLERY 5
Walking in, visitors see and hear the events of Mandela’s first day of freedom on
11 February 1990 when he was released from Victor Verster prison. A wall of
film, images and sound shows the progression of Mandela from that very first day,
to his election and inauguration as South Africa’s first democratically elected
President. Objects on display include a replica of the gold Parker pen with which
Mandela signed the interim constitution of 1993; a replica of the Nobel Peace
Prize Mandela and FW de Klerk received for peaceful negotiations and some of
the original hand-written drafts for Mandela’s autobiography, ‘Long Walk to
Freedom’.
GALLERY 6
Visitors then move on to discover and explore Mandela’s family and
journey from child to man through a spectacular seven-metre-long
scenic projection wall of animations and landscapes. Elements of
Mandela’s childhood are brought to life in an audio-visual piece
using his own words and images of his childhood homes in the
Transkei to animate his memories of some of the most formative
events and influences on his young life.
GALLERY 2
Against a backdrop of two images of Mandela as a President who
loved to meet people especially children, this gallery presents the
landmark years of Mandela’s Presidency through film, photographs
and objects. His original appointments diary from 1997 is displayed,
along with mementos of his inauguration in 1994. Film illustrates
Mandela’s strategic, conciliatory approach to governing a country
going through profound and tempestuous change, and his success
in bringing South Africa back onto the international stage through a
busy calendar of visits overseas.
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Featured here are 95 heartfelt messages to Mandela from around
the world, recorded in the ten days of mourning after his death, each
message representing a year of his life. Visitors will be able to listen
to these while watching film footage of Mandela’s final journey from
Johannesburg to his ancestral home in Qunu in the Transkei in
December 2013.
GALLERY 9
At the centre of this gallery are the original chairs from
Mandela’s post Presidential office at his Foundation in
Johannesburg in which he met and talked with many of
the hundreds of world leaders, celebrities and people who
sought him out during his retirement. A selection of some
of Mandela’s favourite original ‘Madiba Shirts’, the colourful
patterned shirts he became famous for wearing, are also on
display. Included in this gallery is the boxing glove signed and
gifted by Muhammad Ali to Mandela, who was an avid boxing
fan and met Ali several times after 1990.
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GALLERY 10
In this gallery 16 original artworks by acclaimed South African
artist, John Meyer, are displayed. Each painting depicts an event
or theme of Mandela’s life as imagined by the artist, from his
rural boyhood in Qunu through his years as a dedicated lawyer in
the lively Johannesburg of the 1950s to the hardships of jail and
his achievements as President of South Africa and a global
leader.
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Corporates can book exclusive access to Mandela – My Life: The Official Exhibition as either an add on to a function
that they are already hosting at Eden Park, or as a special corporate function of it’s own.
Price per person: $85 p/person excl. GST
Minimum booking - 35pax
Dates available
There are a number of dates and times available between April 13th and August 4th – please enquire.
Duration
2.5 hours
INCLUSIONS:
• Entry into Mandela – My Life: The Official Exhibition
• Exclusive access to the exhibition after hours
• Pre-viewing selection of canapes
• Pre-viewing 1 hour drinks package
• Private exhibition guide and host
• On site parking
Tailored catering and event options are available upon request. Contact [email protected] for more information.
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