The Library of Things We Forgot To Remember

16/10/2026

Please note our schedule for the following week. We are open today: Friday 16 October.

07/10/2026

“Songs We Inherited” is a listening session from The Library of Things We Forgot to Remember’s archive, presented as part of Design Week South Africa 2026.

Join us for an afternoon in the library with records from the archive playing throughout.

Saturday, 10 October

2PM–5PM

Official 44 Stanley Account, Johannesburg

05/10/2026

Slow Down: A Conversation with Neo Muyanga

An interdisciplinary art piece merging music, film and interview. Musician Matshidiso released an album at the end of 2025, ‘IDKL’. One of the tracks on the album, Slow Down explores connection, being present, welcoming mundanity, even boredom.

Matshidiso invited composer-musician, installation artist and creative director at The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Neo Muyanga to take her to the places in Joburg that hold significance for him. They spoke about all kinds of things: storytelling, archiving, the act of making, music and the intentional act of slowing down.

Join Matshidiso and Neo for the preview screening of this work hosted by legendary journalist Brenda Sisane at The Library of Things We Forgot to Remember.

Please RSVP to [email protected] by 5pm on Wednesday 7 October, to claim one of the 10 seats remaining for this screening.

17/09/2026

WE ARE CLOSED this week for some maintenance, but we will be re-opening next week.

Please note that our regular hours are 10am to 5pm Tuesday through Saturday and we are open every last Sunday of the month.

18/08/2026

We have slowly been introducing our expanded hours over the past few weeks. From September, the library will be open every Tuesday to Saturday (10am–5pm) and every last Sunday of the month (10am–4pm).

Please note our hours for the last two weeks of August. We look forward to seeing you at The Library of Thing We Forgot to Remember.

13/08/2026

30/07/2026

Please note that our opening hours this weekend have changed. We will be closed on Thursday 30 July and Saturday 2 August.

However, we will be open from 10:00 until 17:00 on Friday 31 August and Sunday 2 August.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we look forward to seeing you at the library soon!

17/04/2026

Join us tomorrow, 18 April, for an “open house” to hear the library’s vinyl collection, shaped by the perspectives of writers, artists, and cultural workers.

Come through over the course of the day and lounge with us, as Maneo Mohale, Lynnée Denise, Vusi Metalo and Livhuwani Ramalivhana share what they found digging through the library’s archive.