List of museums in South Africa
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This list of museums in South Africa is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
To use the sortable tables: click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order.
Museums[]
Eastern Cape[]
Name | Province | Location | Image | Type | Notes | Coordinates | SAHRIS Site Reference |
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Albany Museum | Eastern Cape | Grahamstown | |||||
Amathole Museum | Eastern Cape | King William's Town | |||||
Eastern Cape | Fort Beaufort | ||||||
National English Literary Museum | Eastern Cape | Grahamstown | Literature | 9/2/003/0016 | |||
Eastern Cape | Grahamstown | 9/2/003/0045 | |||||
Red Location Museum | Eastern Cape | Port Elizabeth | Apartheid | ||||
Eastern Cape | Cradock | Literature | 32°10′24.53″S 25°37′04.32″E / 32.1734806°S 25.6178667°E | ||||
South African Air Force Museum | Eastern Cape | Port Elizabeth | Military Aviation | [1] | 33°59′23″S 25°37′04″E / 33.98972°S 25.61778°E | ||
The Owl House | Eastern Cape | Nieu-Bethesda | |||||
East London Museum | Eastern Cape | East London |
Free State[]
Name | Province | Location | Image | Type | Notes | Coordinates |
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Anglo-Boer War Museum | Free State | Bloemfontein | Military | [2] | 29°14′06″S 26°21′24″E / 29.23500°S 26.35667°E | |
National Museum, Bloemfontein | Free State | Bloemfontein | Natural History, Cultural History, Art | [3] | 29°06′54″S 26°13′08″E / 29.11500°S 26.21889°E | |
Free State | Bloemfontein | Military | ||||
Free State | Parys | Natural History, Cultural, Religious | [4] |
Gauteng[]
KwaZulu-Natal[]
Name | Province | Location | Image | Type | Notes | Coordinates |
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Fort Amiel Museum | KwaZulu-Natal | Newcastle | 27°44′47″S 29°55′17″E / 27.74639°S 29.92139°E | |||
KwaZulu-Natal | Himeville | |||||
KwaZulu-Natal | Pietermaritzburg | [16] | ||||
KwaZulu-Natal | Pietermaritzburg | [17] | ||||
KwaZulu-Natal | Pietermaritzburg |
Limpopo[]
Name | Province | Location | Image | Type | Notes | Coordinates |
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Limpopo | Polokwane | Industrial | The site of the country's first gold crushing site and its first gold power plant are marked by monuments | |||
Limpopo | Polokwane | Residential | Historic building which functions as a museum. | |||
Limpopo | Polokwane | Cultural, "living" | Depicts the traditional and modern-day lifestyle of the Bakone people. | |||
Mapungubwe Hill | Limpopo | Musina | Archaeological | The ancient kingdom of Mapungubwe gave rise to Great Zimbabwe |
Mpumalanga[]
Name | Province | Location | Image | Type | Notes | Coordinates |
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Samora Machel Monument | Mpumalanga | Mbuzini | Accident memorial | The site where Mozambican President Samora Machel lost his life in an aeroplane accident. | ||
Mpumalanga | Barberton | Local history, geology, archaeology, cultural | Museum focussing on the Barberton district and Swazi cultural group | |||
Mpumalanga | Waterval-Boven | Second Boer War | Museum housed in an old farm house used by the Transvaal Government in exile | |||
Pilgrim's Rest | Mpumalanga | Pilgrim's Rest | Cultural | The entire gold-rush town of Pilgrim's Rest has been preserved as a living museum |
North West[]
Name | Province | Location | Image | Type | Notes | Coordinates |
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Boekenhoutfontein | North West | Rustenburg | Historic residence | The former residence of Paul Kruger |
Northern Cape[]
Name | Province | Location | Image | Type | Notes | Coordinates |
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Duggan-Cronin Gallery | Northern Cape | Kimberley | ||||
Fred Turner Folk and Culture Museum | Northern Cape | Loeriesfontein | 30°57′08″S 19°26′49″E / 30.95222°S 19.44694°E | |||
Old Parsonage Museum | Northern Cape | Fraserburg | ||||
McGregor Museum | Northern Cape | Kimberley | ||||
Sol Plaatje Museum | Northern Cape | Kimberley | ||||
Windmill Museum | Northern Cape | Loeriesfontein | 30°57′06″S 19°26′49″E / 30.95167°S 19.44694°E | |||
Northern Cape | Orania | 29°49′00″S 24°24′41″E / 29.81667°S 24.41139°E |
Western Cape[]
See also[]
- List of natural history museums in South Africa
- List of museums
External links[]
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