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Research on the Museum and its History

	Although the museum is still very young researchers have begun to write about how the museum was established, the challenges it has faced and continues to encounter. What is unique about this research is that it has mostly come from staff of the museum and members of the board. Yet they are not merely celebratory about developments that have taken place. They provide a critical insiders perspectives of the history of the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum since it opened its doors in 1999.

Leslie Witz , 'Museums, sustainability and memories of apartheid', talk given on International Museums Day, 19 May 2008, at the McGregor Museum, Kimberley.

Noeleen Murray, 'Working with inconsistencies and discontinuities: Comparting conceptions of heritage and urban design at the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum', Architecture South Africa, March/April 2007, 30-33.

Leslie Witz, ‘Museums on Cape Town's township tours’. In N Murray, N Shepherd and M Hall (eds), Desire Lines, (London: Routledge, 2007).

Paul Faber, Ciraj Rassool and Leslie Witz, South African Family Stories: Reflections on an experiment in exhibition making (Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute, 2007).

Vusi Buthelezi and Bongani Mgijima, 'Mapping museum-community relations in Lwandle', Journal of Southern African Studies, 32, 4, 2006.

Leslie Witz, ‘Transforming Museums on Post-apartheid Tourist Routes’. In I Karp, C Kratz, B Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, C Rassool and G Buntinx (eds), Museums Frictions (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), 107-134.

Noeleen Murray, 'Spatial [re]imaginings? Contesting township "development" post-apartheid', paper presented at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research symposium, University of the Witwatersrand, June 2004.

Vusi Buthelezi: 'The South African Jewish Museum and the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum: Serving different publics in two community museums in the Western Cape', MA mini-thesis in Public and Visual history, University of the Western Cape.