This scheme co-mingles internal and external exhibits using the long walk to freedom as a clear exhibit concept. A pathway is envisaged as a sequence of stops or pauses using art interventions, praise poetry and quotes developed for an outdoor audience. Freedom is expressed as much in museums as in the everyday experience.

The craft market that sits as a threshold experience and start point to the long walk to freedom. Free space, open trade of arts and crafts etc express the individuality and new freedom of the SA people, relieving poverty and building opportunity at this new destination.

The skyline is broken by a delicate and representative structure. A figurative image of Mandela made up from a forest of aluminum poles using a bit map image of real metal pieces projecting from the poles like ‘political banners’ in a march.

Each individual reed effectively contributes to ‘build a nation’ made in Mandela’s image. The poles touch the sky gently like an ‘African comb’. Wind in poles and the organ pipe effect. Wind generates sound through the hollow poles and will be able to sing in the breeze like open organ pipes with wind blowing across the top.

The gently rising sand dune that builds up over the museum is designed to merge with the beach environment and conceal buildings merging exhibit and landscape in a minimalist manner. This understated architectural form will place the attention on the Mandela image the path and the power of the long walk to freedom storylines.