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Mpumalanga

Barberton
Barberton owes its existence to the discovery of gold in 1884 so it is not surprising that the Barberton Museum has displays on geology and mining as well as on archaeology, ethnology, and military and cultural history. The museum comprises a main exhibition building, an Anglo-Boer War blockhouse, and the Fernlea, Stopforth, and Belhaven house museums.
36 Pilgrim Street
Tel: (013) 712-4281
Fax: (013) 712-4208
Daily: 09:00-16:00

Bethal
The 24-part exhibition in the Bethal Museum introduces visitors to a progressive rural community. Highlights are the Kork Pharmacy (1890) and the history of the Bethal Commando during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902).
Market Street
Tel: (0172) 2031 x 2132
Fax: (0172) 5232
Mon-Fri: 09:00-14:30

Botshabelo
The Botshabelo Mission Station is a historical mission station that includes Fort Merensky, churches and a parsonage. The museum provides a look into the daily routine of a 19th century mission station. Adjacent to it is the Traditional Village, a living museum where Ndebele women demonstrate beadwork and other handicrafts and paint the brightly coloured geometric murals characteristic of their villages.
Tel: (0132) 43-5020
Fax: (0132) 43-1319
Mon-Fri: 06:00-18:00

Groblersdal
The Kgodwana Ndebele Village and Museum consists of a reconstruction of Ndebele dwellings, an exhibition of arts and crafts, demonstrations of beadwork, weaving, and so on.
32 km north of Bronkhorstspruit on the Groblersdal road
Tel: (013) 932-0894
Fax: (013) 932-3138

Hazyview
The Shangane Cultural Village is a reconstructed Shangaan village where visitors can experience the culture of a Shangaan family and learn about their way of life. Midday tours include dancing and a meal.
Tel: (013) 737-7000
Fax: (013) 737-7007

Lydenburg
The Lydenburg Museum is a local history exhibition that includes replicas of the famous Lydenburg Heads - terracotta animal and human heads dating from the Later Iron Age, AD 500.
On Lydenburg-Long Tom Pass route in Gustav Klingbiel Nature Reserve
Tel: (01323) 2121
Fax: (01323) 51108

Pilgrim's Rest
The entire village of Pilgrim's Rest, the site of the first economically viable goldfield, has been conserved and restored as a living museum. It boasts beautiful examples of houses from the period of the gold rush as well as an early mining camp and a complete reduction works.

The Alanglade House Museum offers guided tours of the former mine manager's house.
The Diggings Museum just outside the town arranges guided tours of gold-panning activities.

The Dredzen Shop Museum consists of a store stocked with a range of items in use nearly a century ago.
Main Street
Tel: (013) 768-1211/1060
Fax: (013) 768-1113
Daily: 09:00-13:00; 13:30-16:00

Sabie
The cultural-historical Forestry Museum in Sabie depicts various aspects of the country's forestry industry.
(013) 764-1058

Waterval Onder
The Krugerhof Museum is housed in a national monument, the house that was originally an annexe of the hotel and was the last residence of President S J P Kruger in the ZAR before he left South Africa in 1900 to go into self-imposed exile.
Tel: (013) 712-4281
Fax: (013) 712-4208
Daily: 09:00-16:00



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The entire village of Pilgrim's Rest, the site of the first economically viable goldfield, has been conserved and restored as a living museum
Courtesy: South Africa Tourism


 
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