Add visiting Origins Centre on your list of things to do this 1st of May. Tickets can be bought at the door or online on Webtickets.
We look forward to celebrating National #WorkersDay with you! 😊

We're open from 09h00 to 16h00

Have an idea of how you would match your outfit with this genuine leather handbag? We have a few of these handbags for sale, visit the Origins Shop to buy it, while stocks last!!!

Origins Shop open from Monday to Saturday and on public holidays.

Origins Centre Museum is still accepting school group bookings. We offer tours specially focused on what is in the schools curriculum of Social Science (about the Hunter Gatherers lifeways) Grade 5 and Life Science (Human Evolution) which is taught is Grade 11 and 12.
Book your tour NOW

#originscentre is at #SAA2024
archaeology conference in New Orleans, US!
Our curator is presenting what we do at Origins and the interactive archaeology-inspired ochre workshops we offer
Tammy Hodgskiss
#archaeology Archaeology@Wits

Join us tomorrow for this Family Museum Walkabout

The Super Powers of the Brain!
20 April at 11:00

With brain health specialist Dr Kirti Ranchod, paediatrician Dr Harshad Ranchod and cognitive neuroscientist Dr Victoria Williams

Webtickets: R30/R60
#mentalhealth

Have a birthday coming up and looking for a perfect venue to host it? Contact Bongi to arrange a site visit, we have different and unique spaces that might be perfect for your special day.

Some of our guides and interns went for a special tour of ESI with @bernhardzipfel to learn all about the phenomenal fossil collections Wits University
SouthAfrica has an amazing fossil record,thanks Bernhard for an enriching experience
#fossils #witsie #originscentre

Looking for a venue to host your public lectures? Consider the Origins Centre as your preferred venue. Our biggest room takes a maximum of 150 guests (cinema style seating).
Contact Bongi Ndulula on [email protected]

Family Museum Walkabout: The Super Powers of the Brain!
20 April at 11:00
Join brain health specialist Dr Kirti Ranchod, paediatrician Dr Harshad Ranchod and cognitive neuroscientist Dr Victoria Williams

All ages welcome
Tickets on webtickets: R30/R60
#MentalHealthMatters

Join this fun interactive workshop led by archaeologist and Origins’ curator, Dr Tammy Hodgskiss.
Learn about the uses of ochre and get your hands dirty while processing pigments, experimenting with paint mixtures and binders, and creating artworks.
Tickets R150 on webtickets)l

PUBLIC LECTURE at #OriginsCentre
by Dr Patrick Schmidt
Tuesday 26 March, 18:30

Dr Schmidt will review adhesive technologies of the African Middle Stone Age and the European Middle Palaeolithic, and the implications of ancient adhesives for Human Evolution

Our third silent walkabout Origins Centre Museum Wits University on 23 March 2024 was curated to consider aspects of past, present, and future, death and life, and our choices.
#brainhealth #mentalhealth #mentalwellness

Happy #worldpigmentday

As part of our permanent offerings we celebrate the amazing world of ochre pigments with our curator Tammy Hodgskiss. She runs ochre workshops inspired by ochres used in archaeological contexts and for rock art in southern Africa
#ochre #Archaeology

Join this meditative walkabout with Kirti on Saturday 23 March at 11am.
Tickets on webtickets (Origins Centre-Saturday Walkabouts) or at the door

#mentalhealth #meditation

About to Start!

'Evolution: Classical Philosophy Meets Quantum Science' by Professor Somnath Bhattacharyya

14 March at 17:00
Origins Centre Museum
Wits University
Faculty of Science, Wits University

PUBLIC LECTURE
by Dr Patrick Schmidt
26 March, 18:30

Dr Schmidt will review some of the most recent observations in adhesive technologies of the African Middle Stone Age and the European Middle Palaeolithic, and the implications of ancient adhesives for Human Evolution

Before the first guest arrives, it's delivery of furniture hired, catering setup, decor setup, sound check, mic check, all this to make sure the attendees experience Origins Centre Museum is an ultimate pleasure👌🏽
To book the venue for your next event, email [email protected]

Origins Centre Museum turns 18 today! Halala!

Thabo Mbeki, the president of South Africa at the time, opened Origins Centre on 7 March 2006.
The former President of South Africa gave a moving speech that day, you can read his full speech here: gov.za/news/t-mbeki-o…

Wits University

Hello March!

#NewMonth #NewSeason #Autumn 🍂