McGregor Museum
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Not only was the McGregor Museum one of the earliest museums in South Africa, it is still considered to be one of the finest. In 1973 the museum staff and collections moved from the building in Chapel Street to these new premises on Atlas Street in Belgravia, the building that has in the past served as a sanatorium, a hotel and a convent. The McGregor museum is the custodian of a number of other facilities in Kimberley and further afield.
Address: Atlas Street, Kimberley, 8301 Phone: +27 538311761 |
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An exhibition on the Liberation Struggle as it touched on the lives of the people in the Northern Cape, is relevant and enlightening. Other exhibitions which are popular attractions and a constant source of reference to schools, local and foreign visitors include the Ancestors Gallery, the Enviro Zone, the Convent School Display, the Siege Gallery and the Hall of Religions .
The museum houses major natural history and cultural history collections including a botanical herbarium, zoology collections, a history archive, ethnography collections, archaeology and rock art collections, physical anthropology, palaeontology and geology collections.
Most of these fields are represented by professional staff and collection managers, and the collections and associated research programmes are reflected in permanent and temporary exhibits in various sections of the museum as well as in outreach programmes in the province and displays in smaller museums. Map to the McGregor Museum |
