Karoo Heartland

Museum History

The Mohair Experience Museum was built next to the Jansenville Museum (Sid ...

The Middelburg Museum recounts the history of Middelburg. The Museum association was ...

The Graaff-Reinet Museum or “Reinet House”, formerly a Dutch Reformed Church parsonage, ...

The old watermill in Nieu-Bethesda was erected in 1860 by Mr B.J. ...

In 1875, a commission appointed by the Graaff-Reinet Dutch Reformed Church, purchased ...

The foundation stone for this building was laid on 24 April 1821 ...

Graaff Reinet’s first recorded church was in Church Street. Building of a ...

The history of Grootfontein dates back to 1781 when a certain Hendrik ...

Back in the early 1800s this area was the eastern border of ...

Tucked away behind the Verandah Coffee Shop where ladies might lunch on ...

The Cradock Four were a group of four anti-apartheid activists who were abducted ...

The large erf at the southern extremity of Market Square, on which ...

The PW Vorster Museum at the Grootfontein Agricultural Institute is housed in ...

The Old Blackstone Power Station, which supplied the town with power until ...

The Somerset East War Memorial (also called the Delville Wood Memorial) is ...

Ganora Guest Farm is a sheep farm situated just outside Nieu Bethesda in the ...

Both Willowmore and Steytlerville have a number of historic buildings, churches and ...

The old Gunpowder Magazine was constructed on the crest of a barren ...

Olive Schreiner House at 9 Cross Street in Cradock is one of the houses in ...

Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), was a political activist, feminist and author of the world-renowned ...

The Glen Lynden Churches are located in the Baviaans River valley north ...

While limited privately sponsored library facilities were available in Graaff-Reinet from about ...

The Roodewal historic site next to the N10 near Cookhouse doesn’t just ...

The Somerset East Museum is nestled at the foot of the Boschberg ...

Walter Battiss was a master of oil painting and is still considered ...

Art

JK Rowling, creator of the billion-dollar boarding school fantasy series, is famous ...

Soon after the first shots were fired between the Boers and the ...

The former Residency, situated diagonally opposite Reinet House at the end of ...

On 4 September 1901, during the South African War, the famed British ...

On 26 June 1902 the foundation stone of the new Town Hall ...

Situated in the picturesque town of Nieu-Bethesda, and home of the famous ...

The Groot Kerk is one of Graaff-Reinet’s best-known landmarks, but the town ...

The Great Fish River Museum is dedicated to showcasing the history of ...

Weird to some, wonderful to others, the Owl House in Nieu-Bethesda is ...

Art

For the best panoramic view of the whole of Cradock you have ...

Jansenville’s Museum, better known as the Sid Fourie House, stands on Brug ...

Graaff-Reinet is one of South Africa’s oldest towns and boasts approximately 220 ...

The Military History Museum is the most recent addition to the Graaff-Reinet ...

The history of Glen Avon is that of Robert Hart who was ...