McGregor Museum
Not only was the McGregor Museum one of the earliest museums in South Africa, but it is also still considered one of the finest. In 1976, the museum staff and collections relocated from the building on Chapel Street to these new premises on Atlas Street in Belgravia. This building had previously served as a sanatorium, a hotel, and a convent. The McGregor Museum is the custodian of several other facilities in Kimberley and beyond.
Address: Atlas Street, Kimberley, 8301 Phone: +27 538311761
Address: Atlas Street, Kimberley, 8301 Phone: +27 538311761
An exhibition on the Liberation Struggle, as it relates to the lives of people in the Northern Cape, is both relevant and enlightening. Other exhibitions, which are popular attractions and a constant source of reference for 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 significant collections of natural history and cultural history, 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.
(Photo by Richard Jones)
Map to the McGregor Museum
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.
(Photo by Richard Jones)
Map to the McGregor Museum