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At the 18 Gangster Museum, an ex-offender tells visitors about prison life from inside a cell made from a shipping container. According to Salzburg Global, the Khayelitsha museum uses the container as a replica prison cell. Ex-offenders enter it to share firsthand accounts of gangsterism and incarceration with visitors. That arrangement puts a person’s experience at the center of an encounter that might otherwise be an exhibit about crime.
The article describes the museum as an attempt to show the material consequences of gangsterism. It also says founder Wandisile Nqeketho hoped the young project would operate beyond Cape Town, but it does not say whether that happened. Has the museum since appeared elsewhere, and would visitors there meet ex-offenders in the same way?
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