Karoo Heartland

Museum History

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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