During a Contested Spaces seminar conversation held at a local art museum in 2018 in Kimberley, Northern Cape Province, South Africa; mental health professionals identified arts and cultural spaces such as museums, as spaces of untapped potential in terms of promoting mental wellbeing. In this paper, I discuss how the museum space can be one of the strategic tools to help think about, and face, some of the difficult challenges related to inequalities in mental health. Drawing on the conversations and experiences from the seminar, I conclude with a reflection on how the museum can play a role in helping to improve awareness, knowledge and care. Care, I argue, was more than an ethical duty for the mental health professionals who attended the seminar. Care was also a way of contesting and navigating a context of multiple challenges the patients, community, and care-givers faced on a daily basis.