• Editor’s note: This live event will be broadcast live on eNCA.com and is expected to start at 11am.

CAPE TOWN – The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa is set to be officially opened on Friday. 

It’s being viewed as what the Tate modern is to London, and what the Museum of Modern Art is to New York. The museum is the first major museum of contemporary art in Africa.

World renowned British architect Thomas Heatherwick transformed Cape Town’s old grain silo into the Zeitz Mocaa, a nine-storey building that’s a work of art in itself.

The original silo cylinders have been cut into massive tubular shapes, which stand at the centre of the BMW Atrium, the museum’s main atrium. 3 Local architect firms were also involved in the project.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be blessing proceedings at the opening.

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