Ditsong Museums is an amalgamation of eight museums in the

Pretoria Pretoria () is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the Executive (government), executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa. Pretoria straddles the Apies River and extends ...

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Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demo ...

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Gauteng Gauteng ( ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The name in Sotho-Tswana languages means 'place of gold'. Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts for only ...

Province. The museums "have diverse collections covering the fields of

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flora Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms '' gut flora'' or '' skin flora''. E ...

palaeontology Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

, military history, cultural history, geology, anthropology and archaeology."

Museums

Ditsong manages several institutions from its central headquarters in the former Native Affairs building on Church street, Pretoria. *

Ditsong National Museum of Natural History The Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, formerly the Transvaal Museum, is a natural history museum situated in Pretoria, South Africa. It is located on Paul Kruger Street, between Visagie and Minnaar Streets, opposite the Pretoria City Hal ...

Ditsong National Museum of Military History The South African National War Museum in Johannesburg was officially opened by Prime Minister Jan Smuts on 29 August 1947 to preserve the history of South Africa's involvement in the Second World War. In 1975, the museum was renamed the South Af ...

Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History The African Window is a building in Pretoria, Gauteng, which houses the Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History (DNMCH) of South Africa. The DNMCH was amalgamated with the Pretoria-based Transvaal Museum for Natural History (now the Ditsong ...

Pionier Museum Pionier Opelug Museum (Afrikaans for the Pioneer Open-air Museum), is a cultural and "living" museum in the eastern suburbs of Pretoria that reflects the lifestyle of early pioneers or " Voortrekkers" of the early 19th century. It is housed in t ...

* Sammy Marks Museum * Tswaing Meteorite Crater *

Kruger Museum Kruger House is the historical Pretoria residence of the Boer leader and President (government title), President of the South African Republic, Paul Kruger. It was built in 1884 by architect Tom Claridge and builder Charles Clark. Milk was used, i ...

Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum The Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum is an agricultural museum part of the Ditsong Museums of South Africa. The museum exhibits agricultural technology from the Stone Age through to the Second World War. It is located on the R104 (Old Bron ...

Mandate

According to the website the "mandate of the organisation is as follows: * Collection, conservation and safe management of national heritage collections on behalf of the South African nation. * Carry out research and publish such information for the cultural, social and economic use locally and internationally. * Design, implement and manage exhibitions and public programmes with a view to supporting the national educational curriculum, economic development and other socio-economic objectives of the Government. * Render heritage-based service to other museums (national, provincial, local and private) as well as to individuals and tertiary institutions."

References

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