Norval Foundation Art Museum

This guide to the Norval Foundation Art Museum in Cape Town follows Louis Norval, a former quantity surveyor and mall developer, through the roughly one hundred museums he toured with his partner and curator before building his own below Constantiaberg mountain. It traces his shift from collecting South African modernist paintings to founding an institution meant to fill a gap in the country's arts education, and how the museum kept every staff member on salary through the 2020 pandemic shutdown.