Old Palapye Museum concept bags global award
Friday, August 16, 2019

Old Palapye. PIC: NOUA BEULLAH SEREMA
These are the inspiring words of Beullah Serema, a young Motswana architect who has just won a global design award for her impressive restoration works on the Old Palapye Church ruins.
Serema, who hails from Palapye but currently studying in Japan, got the bronze award in the prestigious 2018-2019 A’Design Awards and Competition for designers and innovators on her proposed ‘Old Palapye Museum Historic Building Preservation Museum’.
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