Wednesday, April 22, 2015

New Google Cultural Institute exhibit focuses on the island where Nelson Mandela was held prisoner

The Google Cultural Institute is a sort of only museum, cataloging and sharing various online artistic and historical exhibits, and that collection expanded today with a new exhibit focusing on South Africa's Robben Island. The island is most well-known for being the site of Nelson Mandela's imprisonment for 18 of the 27 years he was behind bars before his release in 1990.

Google's new exhibit was produced in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation as well as the Robben Island Museum and consists of seven interactive exhibits focusing on the trial that led to Mandela's imprisonment, Mandela's life at Robben Island, quotes from various political prisoners held there, a prison tour, and more. There are also 25 different street view...

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