The Amathole Museum, formerly the Kaffrarian Museum is a

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and

cultural history Cultural history combines the approaches of anthropology and history to examine popular cultural traditions and cultural interpretations of historical experience. It examines the records and narrative descriptions of past matter, encompassing the ...

museum located in

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in the

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province of

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. The museum houses the second largest collection of

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s in South Africa and includes the taxidermied body of Huberta, the hippopotamus. Huberta uitstalling

The Xhosa Gallery, housed in the old post office building, concentrates on the cultural history of all tribes of the

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nation. The history section has artefacts, documents and photographs of local interest dating back to the 19th century. The Missionary Museum contains information on missionary endeavours in this area. The museum was founded in 1884 and was later opened to the public in October 1898. The name of the museum was changed from the Kaffrarian Museum to the Amathole Museum in 1999.

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External links

Homepage of Amathole Museum website
Museums in the Eastern Cape Natural history museums in South Africa Qonce {{SouthAfrica-museum-stub