Karoo Heartland

Museum History

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art

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

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

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

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

Right in the north of the Karoo Heartland on the border between ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

As you enter Steytlerville there is an Open Air Museum to your ...

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

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 ...