Victoria West
Colesberg
The Colesberg-Kemper Museum, housed in the old Colesberg bank, features displays on archaeology, local history and a large Anglo-Boer War memorabilia collection.
Email: belinda@mjvn.co.za
Address: Murray Street
Tel: (051) 753 0678
Griquatown
The Mary Moffat Museum can be found in a building which had been a church since 1828, and was used as a bank between 1903 and 1956. It features displays on the Griquas, San Bushmen and other African groups since early 1800 and on missionaries from the
London Missionary Society.
Website: www.museumsnc.co.za/
Address: Main Street
Tel: (05962) ask for 180
Mon-Fri: 08:00-13:00; 14:00-17:00
After hours by appointment
Kimberley
The Duggan-Cronin Gallery, a satellite of the McGregor Museum, exhibits ethnographic displays and turn-of-the-century photographs taken by M Duggan-Cronin. Duggan-Cronin came to Kimberley in 1897, where he took photographs of the different tribes working in the De Beers diamond mining compounds.
Website: www.museumsnc.co.za/
Email: hist.cult@kimberley.co.za
Address: Egerton Road
Tel: (0531) 32645
The Kimberley Mine Museum at the world-renowned Big Hole is
an essential part of any visit to Kimberley. Visitors can view the biggest hole ever made with picks and shovels. The open-air museum comprises buildings dating back to the era of the diamond diggings. The Kimberley Tram Service, which dates from the beginning of the century, still transports passengers from the City Hall to the Mine Museum.
Website: www.places.co.za/html/bighole.html or www.northerncape.org.za
Address: Tucker St, Kimberley, 8301
Tel: (0531) 31557/8/9
Daily: 08:00-18:00
At the Magersfontein Battlefield Museum, a satellite of the McGregor Museum, the old Boer trenches can still be seen from the hilltop. The museum has displays on the battle.
Website: www.museumsnc.co.za/
Email: hist.cult@kimberley.co.za
Address: 31,5 km on the road to Modder River via the Airport
The McGregor Museum (1897) offers everything from archaeology to zoology, catering for a wide scope of research disciplines such as botany, cultural history, documents and archives, education, ethnology, living history and rock art. There's also lots of information on military history, focusing on the Anglo-Boer War and including Kimberley Siege, as well as an EnviroZone covering the natural environment of the Northern Cape and an excellent exhibition on the human history of the Northern Cape from 3-million years ago. The museum also has a guesthouse.
Website: www.museumsnc.co.za
Email: cfortune@museumsnc.co.za
Address: Atlas Street
Tel: (053) 839-2700
The Pioneers of Aviation Museum stands at the site
where the story of aviation in South Africa began and where the first flying school was based. It includes aviation displays and a replica of a Patterson biplane.
Website: www.museumsnc.co.za/
Address: Gen Van der Spuy Drive
Tel: (053) 839-2700
Mon-Sat: 09:00 to 13:00; 14:00 to 17:00
Sun: 14:00 to 17:00
Public holidays: 10:00 to 13:00; 14:00 to 17:00
Wildebeest Kuil is a newly developed rock art site outside Kimberley where visitors can tour open-air examples of San rock art. The facility includes a visitors' centre where displays and a 25-minute film introduce the site.
Website: www.museumsnc.co.za/
Email: xkratc@iafrica.com
Tel: (053) 833-7069/79
Address: On the road between Kimberley and Barkly East ( see map
Kuruman
Visitors to the massive Wonderwerk Cave can see displays on the discoveries - cultural and faunal successions spanning the past 800 millennia - made at this important archaeological site.
Website: www.museumsnc.co.za/
Email: archaeol@museumsnc.co.za
Address: On the main road, half way (45 km) between Kuruman and Danielskuil
Tel: (053) 384-0680 or 082-832-7226
Mon-Fri: 08:30-13:00; 14:30-17:00
The Moffat Museum commemorates Robert Moffat, founder of the mission at the site in the 1820s. It is housed in several old buildings and a church and features, among its exhibits, the oldest press in the country, which printed the first Bible in Africa and is still
in use.
Address: Moffat Lane - follow the signs from the Hotazel Road
Tel: (05373) 21352
Mon-Sat: 08:00-17:00
Sun: 15:00-17:00
Loeriesfontein
The Loeriesfontein Windmill Museum boasts the largest collection of wind pumps in South Africa. It is one of only two windmill museums in the world - the other is in the US.
Website: www.nieuwoudtville.co.za/
Email: info@nieuwoudtville.co.za
Tel: (02762) Ext 16
Prieska
The Prieska Museum tells the story of Prieska and its people and displays an interesting collection of household articles and early farm implements
Address: Victoria Street
Tel: (053) 691-2242
Upington
The Kalahari-Oranje
Museum, in a lovely site on the Orange River and home of the famous donkey monument, built in 1875, has a collection of domestic items as well as articles relating to the history of Upington and the Lower Orange River.
Website: www.museumsnc.co.za/
Address: Schrφder Street
Tel: (054) 332-6064
Mon-Fri: 09:00-12:30; 14:00-17:00
Victoria West
The Victoria West Museum carries displays on the prehistory of the Karoo and the cultural history of Victoria West. The highlight is a collection of fish fossils dating back 250-million years.
Website: www.museumsnc.co.za/
Address: 47 Church Street
Tel: (053) 621-0413
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