Mandela: The Official Exhibition will remain at the African American Museum, Dallas, in Fair Park through Nov. 1. The museum says Dallas is the exhibition's final stop before the collection returns to South Africa.
Admission to the museum and the exhibition is free, and no tickets are required. For the next few weeks there is a catch: during the State Fair of Texas, Sept. 25 through Oct. 18, visitors need fair admission to get into Fair Park, and the fair's parking charges apply.
Hours
During the fair, the museum will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., according to the museum. Outside the fair, its website lists hours of 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, with free parking in the Fair Park lots through Gate 5. The museum is at 3536 Grand Ave.
What is on display
The exhibition fills the museum's four upper-level galleries and follows Nelson Mandela from his childhood in South Africa's Eastern Cape through the anti-apartheid movement, his 27 years in prison and his election as the country's first democratically elected president.
The museum says it includes personal artifacts on loan from the Mandela family and from museums and archives around the world, along with films and photographs that are rarely shown. One gallery holds a full-scale recreation of his cell on Robben Island. Another section displays newspaper front pages from around the world reporting his release in 1990.
The show is produced by Round Room Live with the Royal House of Mandela, and the museum's website says it is authenticated by the Mandela family. The galleries are wheelchair accessible, and film content is subtitled. Schools and other groups can book docent-led tours in advance.
