Kanye Museum

Alone amongst the museums, it began life with a building, a collection and with help from the National Museum.  The building was the late 19th century church which, in the late 1960s, was abandoned and neglected.

The collection belonged to Kgosi Bathoen.  In 1968 the National Museum was established in Gaborone by Alec Campbell with Kgosi Bathoen acting as Board Chairman.   Responding to BII’s request for help, Campbell seconded two volunteers, Alice Rampa and Lynn Farmer, to help out at the Kanye museum. It would appear that I took this particular photo some time after their departure. But for a certainty, I remember clearly that the building was in poor shape with a substantial tree growing through one wall.