The Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum is an
agricultural museum
An agricultural museum is a museum dedicated to preserving agricultural history and heritage. It aims to educate the public on the subject of agricultural history, their legacy and impact on society. To accomplish this, it specializes in the di ...
part of the
Ditsong Museums of South Africa
Ditsong Museums is an amalgamation of eight museums in the Pretoria and Johannesburg environs in the Gauteng Province. The museums "have diverse collections covering the fields of fauna and flora, palaeontology, military history, cultural history, ...
. The museum exhibits agricultural technology from the Stone Age through to the Second World War. It is located on the
R104 (Old
Bronkhorstspruit
Bronkhorstspruit is a town 50 km east of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa along the N4 highway towards Witbank. It also includes three townships called Zithobeni, Rethabiseng and Ekangala. On 18 May 2011, the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality ...
Road) in
Rayton
Rayton is a town in North-Eastern Gauteng which started out as a tin shack mining town on the farm Elandshoek. During its boom days the town served the needs of thousands of diggers and prospectors working for the Schiller, Montrose and Dunmore mi ...
, near
Cullinan, Gauteng, South Africa.
History
The Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum is located on the farm ''Kaalfontein''; once owned by Willem Prinsloo (nicknamed Willem Wragtag). In 1976, his great-granddaughter Miertjie le Roux donated 16 hectares, a dwelling from 1860 and some outbuildings to the National Cultural History and Open-air Museum. Later the museum bought part of the adjacent farm. Development began in 1976, with the museum officially opening on 29 March 1980.
Activities
The museum hosts several festivals throughout the course of the year.
There are outdoor exhibits from various time periods; an 1830 exhibit and a 1913 exhibit. The 3 halls at the museum showcase
agricultural vehicles
A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction. Most common ...
and
agricultural machinery
Agricultural machinery relates to the mechanical structures and devices used in farming or other agriculture. There are many types of such equipment, from hand tools and power tools to tractors and the countless kinds of farm implements that the ...
used in South Africa.
See also
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James Hall Transport Museum
James Hall Transport Museum (JHTM) is a transport museum that aims to preserve and promote the history of over 400 years of transport in South Africa in particular, and Africa in general. It is the largest transport museum in Africa. It is loc ...
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Museums in Johannesburg
Agriculture museums