Overview

Totem Media is a group of collaborators with a passion for innovative educational media finding practical solutions in the form of exhibitions, films, books, archives and museums. They are drawn together by projects that excite them - from critical histories to the popular engagement of science. Their expertise covers an unusually wide range of skills for a single development team. These include research, writing, educational methodology, design, film production, architecture, information and interactive technology, as well as strategic thinking around sustainability. They think of themselves as being on a journey together, engaging the world with critical awareness, inviting others to join them on journeys of knowledge, compassion and imagination.

Woza eNanda Museum Exhibitions development now under way for eThekwini Municipality

Archive establishment for the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela Traditional Authority

Natural History Collections audit now completed for the NRF

Totem Media has recently won the tender to produce a series of exhibitions at Inanda near Durban. The exhibitions focus on the extraordinary dialogue between Mahatma Gandhi, John Dube and Isaiah Shembe in the 1920s.

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Totem Media is presently developing the archival programme for the BBKTA.

The archive will be unveiled on Heritage day - September 2011.

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Totem Media has spent two years undertaking the most through scoping of all collections in museums, universities and cities. This was a collaborative exercise with over 220 scientists and collections managers. The report for the National Research Foundation (NRF) is a template for government to make radical changes to the way science and the collections are managed and funded.

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