Red Location Museum, Historical museum in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
The Red Location Museum is an art museum in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, with an unusual architecture made of twelve large metal containers. Each container measures roughly 6 feet wide and 40 feet high and serves as a separate gallery space for different collections.
The site was once a British concentration camp from the Boer War period and later became one of Port Elizabeth's first black townships starting around 1900. The area played a major role in South Africa's struggle for freedom, which explains its current purpose.
The space holds memories of South Africa's struggle for freedom through photographs, objects, and voices of people from the local community. The exhibition shows what daily life was like for those who lived through this period.
The place has an auditorium room that holds around 120 people and a conference room for about 180 people, which is good for events. There is also a restaurant on site that can seat up to 200 guests, so you can have a meal while visiting.
The museum deliberately uses industrial materials and the look of corrugated metal containers to mirror the architecture of local residential areas. This design choice makes the building itself a statement about the history and identity of the place.
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