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Barberton
Barberton owes its existence to the discovery of gold in 1884, and the Barberton Museum has displays on geology and mining as well as archaeology, ethnology, and military and cultural history. The museum has a main exhibition building, an Anglo-Boer War blockhouse, and the Fernlea, Stopforth, and Belhaven house museums.
Address: 36 Pilgrim Street
Tel: (013) 712-4281
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
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 a traditional village and 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
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
Hazyview
Midway between the Blyde River Canyon and the southern Kruger National Park, the residents of Shangana Cultural Village invite guests to share in the way of life of the Shangaan people. The picturesque villages are set in the shade of ancient trees in a reserve of forest and grassland, and are open every day.
Website: www.shangana.co.za
Email: reservations@shangana.co.za
Address: On the R535 between Hazyview and Graskop
Tel: (013) 737-7000 or 107-10-20-100
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.
Address: On Lydenburg-Long Tom Pass route in Gustav Klingbiel Nature Reserve
Tel: (01323) 2121
Pilgrims Rest
The entire village of Pilgrims 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.
