Tswaing Crater Museum
Akasia/ Soshanguve

Cape

Fort Selwyn Museum  is built in the shape of a seven-pointed star, enabling the maximum number of men and guns to fire from the walls. It displays weapons and portable furniture used by British officers.  Gunfire Hill Tel: (046) 622-2312   Fax: (046) 622-2398   Open during the National Arts Festival in July and by appointment

The J L B Smith Institute of Ichthyology is the leading centre for the study of fishes in southern Africa. The story of the coelacanth is told in a display in the foyer where there is also a marine aquarium.
Somerset Street
Tel: (046) 636-1002
Fax: (046) 622-2403
Mon-Fri: 08:00-13:00; 14:00-17:00

Visitors to the Eastern Star Gallery, a satellite of the National English Literary Museum, can see printing machinery and other historical items relating to printing, including John Fairbairn's editorial desk.
4 Anglo African Street (off High Street)
Tel: (046) 622-2704   Fax: (046) 622-2582

Humansdorp
The Humansdorp Museum, a cultural history museum, focuses on the growth and development of Humansdorp through its display of farming implements, bottles, shells, clothing and crockery. It also features a restored water mill.
17 Bureau Street
Tel: (042) 291-0625   Fax: (042) 295-1993   Mon-Fri: 10:00-13:00; 14:00-16:00

King William's Town
The Amathole Museum (originally the Kaffrarian) was started in 1884 and is the sixth oldest museum in South Africa. It focuses on local history, German settler history, Xhosa ethnography and anthropology and it also has an exhibition of mammals and on a South African animal legend - Huberta the Hippo.
cnr Alexandra and Albert Roads
Tel: (043) 642-4506   Fax: (043) 642-1569   Mon-Fri: 09:00-13:00; 13:45-16:30   Sat: 10:00-12:30

The Missionary Museum exhibits the missionary history of the area and beyond, displaying many facets of missionary life and the work of all denominations.
Tel: (043) 642-4506   Fax: (043) 642-1569   Mon-Fri: 09:00-13:00; 13:45-16:45   Weekends & Public Holidays: closed

Lady Grey
The Lady Grey Museum is situated in a Victorian building which housed the "Poor School" between 1898 and 1914. Its exhibits focus on celebrities such as Athol Fugard and Tiro Vorster who have roots in the Middelburg.
Lady Grey Tourism Association   Tel: (051) 603-1114

Nieu-Bethesda
The Owl House, its walls covered with mirrors and ground glass, was the home of the eccentric mystic Helen Martins (1898-1976) who was immortalised by Athol Fugard in his play The Road to Mecca. Her creative talent is displayed in the Camel Yard where statues of camels, wise men, churches and mermaids, all created from broken bottles, fragments of mirror and cement, turn the space into a fantasy world.
Tel: (049) 841-1642   Fax: (049) 841-1642   Mon-Sun: 09:0-17:00   Closed: Christmas Day

Port Alfred
The Kowie History Museum concentrates on local social history with an emphasis on the period 1820-89. Displays include the Briseis (wrecked 1859), the Xhosa, and marine shells.
Pascoe Crescent, East Bank
Tel: (046) 624-4713   Tues-Sat: 10:00-13:00

No 7 Castle Hill is a historical settler house (c. 1830), furnished in the style of the mid 19th century. Its collection includes furniture, domestic items, ceramics, royal commemoratives, crested china, dolls and toys, luggage, and pictures.
Tel: (041) 582-2515   Fax: (041) 586-4962   Tues-Sat & Public Holidays: 10:00-13:00; 14:00-17:00   Mon & Sun: 14:00-17:00   Closed Good Friday and Christmas Day

Prince Alfred's Guard Museum houses a military exhibit in a Victorian Drill Hall (1880), a national monument and one of the finest surviving examples of its type.
PAG Drill Hall, Prospect Hill, Central
Tel: (041) 505-1224 / 1251   Fax: (041) 56-2175   Mon, Tues & Th: by appointment   Wed: 10:00-13:00  Fri: 10:00-16:00

The South African Air Force Museum, a satellite of the SAAF Museum, Swartkop, Pretoria, focuses on military aviation. Exhibits include Mirage F1 CZ, Atlas Kudu, Impala, Westland Scout, Bell 47,2 x Harvard and Bosbok aircraft and other related exhibits. A research library is available.
Forest Hill Drive, Southern section of the Port Elizabeth Airport Reserve
Tel: (041) 505-1295   Fax: (041) 505-1403   Mon-Fri: 08:00-15:00   Sun: 10:00-16:90  

The St Croix Motor Museum features more than 80 vehicles, the earliest of which is a 1916 model. The vehicles are taken on the roads in and around Port Elizabeth once a month. The museum has a fully equipped restoration workshop and a library.
Mowbray Street Newton Park
Tel: (041) 392-5362   Fax: (041) 392-5364   By appointment

Port St Johns
The Port St Johns Branch of the Umtata Museum is housed in the old Free Mason Lodge. It features the cultural history of the local people and local natural history (birds and mammals).
Golf Course Drive
Tel: (0475) 44-1265   Fax: (0471) 312816   M-F: 08:00-16:30   Closed Weekends & Public Holidays

Queenstown
The Queenstown & Frontier Museum is housed in a national monument. Its main focus is on the history of Queenstown and surrounding districts and it includes a large telephone and medical equipment collection and some natural history.
Tel: (0451)5860   Fax: (0451)5860   Mon-Fri: 08:00-12:45; 14:00-16:00   Weekends: on request

Somerset East
The Somerset East Museum is housed in a Georgian manor house which had been a parsonage for 105 years. A period house museum, among its attractions are a Victorian herb garden, more than 700 roses, a blacksmith's shop, and the town's oldest cemetery.
Tel: (042) 243-2079   Fax: (042) 243-2079   Mon-Fri: 08:00-13:00; 14:00-17:00  

 

Cathcart
The C M Van Coller Museum is in a turn-of-the-century shop and features early 19th century household items from the Cathcart district.
Tel: (045) 843-1737   Fax: (045) 843-1529   Mon, Tues, Th & Fri: 10:00-12:00   Wed: 14:00-16:00

Cradock
The Great Fish River Museum, housed in the old Dutch Reformed Church parsonage, a national monument dating back to 1849, gives a picture of the way of life of pioneer settlers in the Eastern Cape in 1806 through furniture, ceramics and photographs.
87 High Street
Tel: (048) 881-4509   Fax: (048) 881-1421   Tues-Fri: 08:00-13:00; 14:00-16:00   Sat: 08:00-12:00

Dordrecht
The Anderson Museum displays turn-of-the century furniture and clothing, rock art, agriculture and family trees.
Grey Street
Tel: (045) 943-1017   Fax: (045) 943-1966   Mon-Fri: 09:00-12:00

East London
The East London Museum depicts the natural and cultural history and rich heritage of the region. Best known for the prehistoric coelacanth, the Museum also displays reconstructions of the extinct dodo of Mauritius, along with the only known dodo egg in the world, superb Xhosa beadwork and aspects of German settler history.
319 Oxford Street
Tel: (043) 743-0686  Fax: (043) 743-3127
Mon-Fri: 09:30-17:00  Sat: 14:30-17:00  Sun: 11:00-16:00  Closed: Good Friday and Christmas Day

The Calgary Transport Museum, a satellite of the East London Museum, features a collection of carts, wagons and handcarts from the Border region, acquired and restored by the late Robin Wells. Also on show are a gypsy caravan, a tack room and a wheelwright's workshop and forge.
13 km from East London on the Stutterheim (N6) Road
Tel: (0431) 730-7244   09:00-16:00 daily   Closed: Good Friday and Christmas Day

Gately House, a historical monument (1878), is a satellite of the East London Museum. It was the home of John Gately (Mayor of East London several times), his wife Mary Ann, and their twelve children.
1 Park Gates Road
Tel: (043)722-2141   Tues-Th: 10:00-13:00; F: 10:00-13:00   Weekends: 15:00-17:00   Closed: Mondays, Good Friday and Christmas Day

Fort Beaufort
The Fort Beaufort Historical Museum displays aspects of the military and domestic life of Victorian times as well as a collection of 19th century Frontier Wars weapons.
44 Durban Street
Tel: (046) 645-1555   Fax: (046) 645-2082   Mon-Fri: 08:30-13:00; 14:00-17:00   Sat: 08:30-12:45

Adelaide
Ons-Erfenis-Museum is a period house museum whose highlights are a ceramics collection (Wedgewood, Dresden and Staffordshire); yellowwood & stinkwood furniture; silverware, glassware and jewellery.
Queen Street
Tel: (046) 684-0290  Fax: (046) 684-0290   Mon-Fri: 08:00-13:00; 14:00-17:00

Alice
F S Malan Museum features collections of beadwork, wooden sculptures and costumes.
Henderson Hall, First Floor, University of Fort Hare
Tel: (040) 602-2277   Fax: (040) 653-1926   Mon-Fri: 09:00-13:00; 14:00-17:00   After hours by appointment

Aliwal North
The Kerkplein Museum, a component of the Aliwal North Museums Complex, is housed in the old Dutch Reformed Church and comprises an interior display of a street scene with shops and houses and an outdoor display of farm implements.
cnr Smith and Barkly Streets
Tel: (0551) 2441 / 2289 / 41910   Fax: (0551) 41307 or 2289   Mon-Sat: 09:00-12:00

Barkly East
Visitors to the Barkly East Museum will be introduced to the history of the Barkly East area and to the furniture, household items and sheep and cattle farming implements once prevalent there. The museum also has a collection of uniforms from the Anglo-Boer War and both World Wars.
White Street
Tel: (045) 971-0063   Fax: (045) 97-10350   Mon-Fri: 09:00-12:00; 15:00-16:30

Bathurst
Exhibits in the Bathurst Agricultural Museum comprise engines, tractors, wagons, buggies, agricultural machinery and tools, some dating back to British Settlers.
Corner Trappes and Show Ground Roads
Tel: (046) 625-0055
Cell: 082 933-1677   Fax: (046) 624-3743   Tues-Fri & Sun: 09:00-16:00   Sat: 09:00-13:00

Burgersdorp
An old parsonage, two typical Karoo houses, the first theological school and lean-tos in which old wagons and farm implements are displayed comprise the Burgersdorp Cultural Historical Museum.
Tel: (051) 653-1738   Fax: (051) 653-1738   Mon-Fri: 08:00-16:00

Reinet House is an H-shaped house dating back to 1812 and was originally the home of the Revs Andrew and Charles Murray. It houses a fine collection of period furniture.
Tel: (049) 892-3801   Fax: (049) 892-5650   Mon-Fri: 09:00-12:30; 14:00-17:00   Sat & Sun: 09:00-12:00

At The Old Residency, also an H-shaped house, built in 1819, visitors can see displays of firearms, musical instruments and the history of Graaff-Reinet.
Tel: (049) 892-3801   Fax: (049) 892-5650   Mon-Fri: 08:00-12:30; 14:00-17:00   Sat: 09:00-12:00

The Old Library Museum in the town's first library (1847), houses the Lex Bremner Fossil Collection of Karoo reptile fossils, and a collection of Khoi and San art reproductions.
Tel: (049) 892-3801   Fax: (049) 892-5650   Mon-Fri: 08:00-12:30; 14:00-17:00   Sat & Sun: 09:00-12:00

Urquhart House, which dates back to between 1815 and 1821, exhibits a fine collection of Victorian furniture, a peach-pip kitchen floor, and a Dutch oven. "old" roses bloom in the Victorian garden and the museum also has a genealogical research centre.
Market Square (Adjacent to Reinet House)
Tel: (049) 892-3801   Fax: (049) 892-5650   Mon-Fri: 08:00-12:30; 14:00-17:00   Sat: 09:00-12:00

Uitenhage
The Uitenhage Historical Museum Complex has several components:

The Cuyler Manor Farm Museum complex is housed in a Cape Dutch manor home, circa 1814, which belonged to General Jacob Glen Cuyler. The exhibit depicts the early lifestyle of the people of the Eastern Province.
Old Uitenhage/Port Elizabeth Road
Tel: (041) 922-0372
Fax: (041) 992-2083
Mon-Fri: 10:00-13:00; 14:00-16:30

The Drostdy Museum, occupies a Cape Dutch style building, circa 1809. Its focus is on the historical development and growth of Uitenhage and the surrounding districts through furniture, clothing and household items. It also has an archive library.
50 Caledon Street
Tel: (041) 992-2063   Fax: (041) 992-2083   Mon-Fri: 10:00-16:300

The Station Museum, housed in the original railway station, depicts the Victorian lifestyle of the period. It also portrays railway history through a display of steam locomotives, rolling stock and luggage.
Market Street
Tel: (041) 922-8210   Fax: (041) 992-2083   Tues-Th: 10:00-13:00; 14:00-16:30

Beetle lovers will enjoy the Volkswagen Motor Museum with its display of vehicles made at the local Volkswagen factory, from the first models (1932) to the last "Beetle" to come off the local assembly line.
50 Caledon Street
Tel: (041) 992-2063   Fax: (041) 992-2083   Mon-Fri: 10:00-16:00

The Sterkstroom Museum is an old fashioned shop with a collection of crockery, household items, kitchenware and buttermaking tools. It also features the history of Sterkstroom and an agricultural exhibition.
34 Van Zyl Street, Sterkstroom, 5425
Tel: (04592) 188   Fax: (04592) 188 Summer: Mon-Fri: 08:00-16:00   Winter: Mon-Fri: 08:30-16:30   Sat: by appointment

Umtata
The Umtata Museum, in the Old Post Office building, features displays of cultural and natural history, local birds, mammals, geology, archaeology, a beadwork collection and old photographs.
Cnr. York Road and Victoria Street   Tel: (0471) 31-2427   Fax: (0471) 31-2816   Mon-Fri: 08:00-16:30

In the Kaya Lendaba Arts and Cultural Village in the Shamwari Game Reserve visitors can observe rituals; be introduced to healing by means of indigenous plants; visit a healing cave; attend discussions about bones of divination and African astrology, and study alternative medicine.
Web: http://www.places.co.za/html/kaya_lendaba.html   Tel: (042) 851-1196   Fax: (042) 851-1224

Mount Frere
The Isinamva Cultural Village is an authentic inhabited Xhosa village, where visitors spend a day listening to storytelling, visiting healers and development projects, doing daily household chores, and so on.   Cell: (083) 659-8491

Mooiplaas
At the Khaya la Bantu Cultural Village, a Xhosa homestead on a working farm, visitors can learn about Xhosa culture through guides who act as interpreters.
Tel: (0431) 851-1011   Fax: (0431) 851-1011   By appointment