Dr Paul Murray, our Museum Curator was left to pick up the pieces and figure out what happened yesterday (27 January 2022) when he came to close the museum.  The scene that he came across was amusingly unstaged.  Rembrandt was wearing an enormous African headdress!

After some reflection and closer inspection it became obvious that the culprit was the howling South Easter wind.  It had swept through the Mitre lounge on that day making the lampshade sway so vigorously that the cord finally broke and it fell rather precisely onto the head of Dr Garth Hockly’s statue of Rembrandt placed as an exhibit in the atrium of the museum.

Little did Rembrandt know that one day he would be crowned in glory with a straw hat, right here under the African skies.

And even more so - at Bishops where over eons his works have rigorously been inspected for the studies in mood and fine brushstroke.

As Dr Murray so elegantly said - 

Semper Aliquid Novi Ex Africa!

(There's always something new out of Africa! )

Clearly, Rembrandt has had his own African Renaissance.