Karoo Heartland

Museum History

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

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

Our Heritage Museum in Adelaide is a national monument comprising an old ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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