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.
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Museums Eastern Cape Name Province Location Image Type Notes Coordinates SAHRIS Site Reference Albany Museum Eastern CapeGrahamstown Amathole Museum Eastern CapeKing William's Town Fort Beaufort Museum Eastern CapeFort Beaufort National English Literary Museum Eastern CapeGrahamstown Literature 9/2/003/0016 Observatory Museum Eastern CapeGrahamstown 9/2/003/0045 Red Location Museum Eastern CapePort Elizabeth Apartheid Schreiner House Museum Eastern CapeCradock Literature South African Air Force Museum Eastern CapePort Elizabeth Military Aviation The Owl House Eastern CapeNieu-Bethesda 9/2/033/0007East London MuseumEastern CapeEast London
Free State Name Province Location Image Type Notes Coordinates Anglo-Boer War Museum Free StateBloemfontein Military National Museum, Bloemfontein Free StateBloemfontein Natural History, Cultural History, Art South African Armour Museum Free StateBloemfontein Military Parys Museum, Parys Free StateParys Natural History, Cultural, Religious
Gauteng Name Province Location Image Type Notes Coordinates African Window GautengPretoria Cultural History Zonderwater Italian military cemetery GautengCullinan Military History Italian World War II cemetery and memorial located in the former Zonderwater POW camp. Hechter Schulz Museum and Study Centre GautengBoksburg Ethnographic Apartheid Museum GautengJohannesburg Apartheid Eksteen Transport Museum GautengPretoria Transport Freedom Park GautengPretoria Cultural Geological Survey Museum (South Africa) GautengPretoria Geological Hector Pieterson Museum GautengJohannesburg Apartheid The events leading up to the Soweto uprising Fietas Museum GautengJohannesburg James Hall Transport Museum GautengJohannesburg Transport Museum Johannesburg Art Gallery GautengJohannesburg Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre GautengJohannesburg Memory. Education. Lessons for Humanity. Kruger House GautengPretoria Historic house The house used by President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic Lindfield Victorian House Museum GautengJohannesburg Living Victorian House Museum Mapungubwe Museum GautengPretoria Archaeological Melrose House GautengPretoria Military, ResidentialPreserved Georgian mansion in which the Treaty of Vereeniging was signed MuseuMAfricA GautengNewtown, Johannesburg National Cultural History Museum (South Africa) GautengPretoria Nelson Mandela National Museum GautengJohannesburg Historic house No Show Museum GautengJohannesburg Art of nothing Peacemakers Museum GautengJohannesburg Pretoria Art Museum GautengPretoria Art Fort Klapperkop Military Museum GautengPretoria Military SAB World of Beer GautengJohannesburg Beer Sammy Marks House GautengPretoria Historic house Preserved Victorian mansion belonging to Jewish entrepreneur Sammy Marks South African Air Force Museum GautengPretoria Military Aviation South African Airways Museum Society GautengRand Airport, Germiston Civil Aviation South African National Museum of Military History GautengJohannesburg Military South African National Railway And Steam Museum GautengKrugersdorp Transport South African Police Service Museum GautengPretoria Law Enforcement Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum GautengPretoria Agriculture Transvaal Museum GautengPretoria Natural History Van Tilburg Collection GautengPretoria Arts Van Wouw Museum GautengPretoria Sculpture Voortrekker Monument GautengPretoria Cultural Monument to the early pioneers of the South African Interior
KwaZulu-Natal Name Province Location Image Type Notes Coordinates Fort Amiel Museum KwaZulu-NatalNewcastle Himeville Museum KwaZulu-NatalHimeville Margate Art Museum KwaZulu-NatalMargate KwaZulu-Natal Museum KwaZulu-NatalPietermaritzburg Voortrekker Museum KwaZulu-NatalPietermaritzburg The Old Prison Museum KwaZulu-NatalPietermaritzburg
Limpopo Name Province Location Image Type Notes Coordinates Eersteling Monuments LimpopoPolokwane Industrial The site of the country's first gold crushing site and its first gold power plant are marked by monuments The Irish House LimpopoPolokwane Residential Historic building which functions as a museum. Bakone Malapa Northern Sotho Open-Air Museum LimpopoPolokwane Cultural, "living" Depicts the traditional and modern-day lifestyle of the Bakone people. Mapungubwe Hill LimpopoMusina Archaeological The ancient kingdom of Mapungubwe gave rise to Great Zimbabwe
Mpumalanga Name Province Location Image Type Notes Coordinates Samora Machel Monument MpumalangaMbuzini Accident memorial The site where Mozambican President Samora Machel lost his life in an aeroplane accident. Barberton Museum MpumalangaBarberton Local history, geology, archaeology, cultural Museum focussing on the Barberton district and Swazi cultural group Krugerhof Museum MpumalangaWaterval-Boven Second Boer War Museum housed in an old farm house used by the Transvaal Government in exile Pilgrim's Rest MpumalangaPilgrim'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 Boekenhoutfontein North WestRustenburg Historic residence The former residence of Paul Kruger
Northern Cape Name Province Location Image Type Notes Coordinates Duggan-Cronin Gallery Northern CapeKimberley Fred Turner Folk and Culture Museum Northern CapeLoeriesfontein Old Parsonage Museum Northern Cape Fraserburg McGregor Museum Northern CapeKimberley Sol Plaatje Museum Northern CapeKimberley Windmill Museum Northern CapeLoeriesfontein Sonskip Living Museum (an earthship) Northern CapeOrania
Western Cape Name Province Location Image Type Notes Coordinates CAPE HERITAGE MUSEUM, CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE Western Cape Cape Town Bartolomeu Dias Museum Complex Western CapeMossel Bay Bredasdorp Shipwreck Museum Western CapeBredasdorp Cape Education Museum Western Cape Wynberg, Cape Town Education Cape Medical Museum Western Cape Cape Town District Six Museum Western Cape Cape Town Koopmans-de Wet House Western Cape Cape Town Groot Constantia Manor House Western Cape Cape Town Ceres Transport Riders' Museum Western Cape Ceres CP Nel Museum Western CapeOudtshoorn Franschhoek Motor Museum Western CapeFranschhoek George Museum Western CapeGeorge Heart of Cape Town Museum Western CapeCape Town Hout Bay Museum Western CapeHout Bay Huguenot Monument Memorial Museum Western CapePaarl Iziko South African Museum Western CapeCape Town Museum Iziko South African National Gallery Western CapeCape Town Art Montagu Museum Western CapeMontagu Old Harbour Museum Western CapeHermanus Outeniqua Transport Museum Western CapeGeorge Robben Island Museum Western CapeCape Town South African Sendinggestig Museum Western CapeCape Town Historic house Slave Lodge Western CapeCape Town Museum Simon's Town Museum Western CapeSimon's Town Museum South African Air Force Museum Western CapeCape Town Military Aviation South African Naval Museum Western CapeSimonstown Waterworks Museum Western CapeCape Town The Warrior Toy Museum Western Cape Simonstown Toy Stellenbosch Toy and Miniature Museum Western Cape Stellenbosch Stellenbosch Museum Western Cape Stellenbosch Chavonnes Battery Museum Western Cape Cape Town Drostdy Museum Western Cape Swellendam Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa Western Cape Cape Town
See also
List of natural history museums in South Africa List of museums
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