Karoo Heartland

Museum History

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

During the last 1800s, British soldiers created a chessboard on the top ...

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

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

The Museum Association was founded in 1983 with the prospect of establishing ...

The brand new Karoo Origins – The Fossil Centre in Graaff-Reinet is ...

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

Some stories don’t live in books… they live in what’s been kept. In ...

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

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

The Fairworld Fine Wool Museum was established by Willem van Aardt to ...

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

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

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

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

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

Art

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

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

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

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

The first owner of Bulhoek was Douw Gerbrand Steyn, born in 1777 ...

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

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

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

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

The Afrikaanse Christelike Vroue Vereeniging hall – ACVV – (Afrikaans Christian Women’s ...

Our Heritage Museum in Adelaide is a national monument and consists of ...