Graaff Reinet Area Museums
- More InfoUpdated: 10 months agoHester Rupert Art Museum Graaff ReinetLocated in Church Street, Graaff-Reinet, is housed in the fifth oldest church building in South Africa. It was built and consecrated as a Dutch Reformed Mission Church in 1821, 35 years after the founding of the village of...
- Graaff-Reinet
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- 049 807 5700
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- More InfoUpdated: 10 months agoAnglo-Boer War Military Museum Graaff-ReinetThe museum provides an overview of the military history of Graaff-Reinet from the 1800`s until 30 June 2007.
- Graaff-Reinet
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- 049 892 3801
- graaffreinetmuseum@intekom.co.za
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- More InfoUpdated: October 2015Ganora Fossil MuseumThe Ganora Fossil Museum in Nieu Bethesda was registered in 1998 and, although small, houses mainly the finds we have made on Ganora. The fossils we exhibit are on average about 280 million years old. That was in the time when...
- Nieu-Bethesda
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- 049 841 1302
- 082 698 0029
- info@ganora.co.za
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- More InfoUpdated: November 2017Reinet House Museum, Graaff-ReinetThe Graaff-Reinet Museum or “Reinet House”, formerly a Dutch Reformed Church parsonage, was built at the expense of the Government in 1812 during the ministry of the Rev. Kicherer. It was the home of three ministers prior to...
- Graaff-Reinet
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- 049 892 3801
- graaffreinetmuseum@intekom.co.za
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- More InfoUpdated: November 2017Old Residency Museum, Graaff-ReinetThe former Residency, situated diagonally opposite Reinet House at the end of Parsonage Street, and forming a unique architectural complex with it, is a well-preserved example of the early 19th Century Cape Dutch H-shaped house.
- Graaff-Reinet
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- 049 8910664
- graaffreinetmuseum@intekom.co.za
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- More InfoUpdated: November 2017Old Library Museum, Graaff-ReinetWhile limited privately sponsored library facilities were available in Graaff-Reinet from about 1818, it was not until 1847 that the citizens of the town established a public library, subscribing funds to build the central...
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- 049 892 3801
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- More InfoUpdated: November 2017Urquhart House Museum Graaff ReinetThe large erf at the southern extremity of Market Square, on which Urquhart House stands today, was granted in freehold to Johan Hendrik Greyling on 1 January 1806, which places it amongst the earliest plots transferred into...
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- 049 892 5650
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- More InfoUpdated: 10 months agoOwl House & Helen MartinsHelen Martins lay ill in bed one night with the moon shining in through the window and considered how dull and grey her life had become. She resolved there and then, that she would strive to bring light and colour into her life....
- Nieu-Bethesda
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- 049 841 1733
- 079 080 8988
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- More InfoUpdated: 10 months agoKitching Fossil Exploration CentreA visit to the Fossil Exploration Centre will be a journey back in time to a world with unfamiliar plants and animals. There are life-size models of prehistoric animals that roamed the area and illustrations of the landscape...
- Nieu-Bethesda
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- 076 629 0058
- ian.mckay@wits.ac.za
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- More InfoUpdated: 8 months agoJan Rupert CentreThe Neo-Gothic building in Middle Street was originally a place of worship for the Mantatees, a refugee Sotho tribe that had fled south across the Orange River in the 1820’s. The Jan Rupert centre has at present on exhibition...
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- 049 892 6107
- janrupertcentre@telkomsa.net
- More InfoUpdated: July 2017Military History Museum Graaff ReinetThe Military History Museum is the most recent addition to the Graaff-Reinet Museum Complex and was established in 2005.
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- 049 892 5650
- graaffreinetmuseum@intekom.co.za
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