Contact Information

• Name:

  Benoni Museum

• Postal Address:

  P. Bag x014
  1500 Benoni
  South Africa

• Location:

  cor. Elston Avenue/Rothsay Street

• Telephone:

  27-11-7416231/34

• Facsimile:

  27-11-4221121

• Director:

  Miss Margaretha Joubert

• Year founded:

  1994

Collections

• Type of repository:

  Museum

• Types of source material:

  Archival records
  Artifacts
  Ecclesiastical records
  Ephemera
  Government records
  Manuscripts
  Newspapers
  Personal papers
  Photographs
  

• Size:

  around 6,000 artifacts, photographs and manuscripts.

• Holdings:

  Photographs and objects dating back to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand, Southern African pottery, weaving, beadwork, musical instruments, herb garden, military memorabilia, contemporary art

• Receiving new material?

  No

• Languages:

  English, Afrikaans
  

Access Conditions

• Access conditions:

  Open: weekdays: 9:00-16:30 <br> Last Saturday of the month: 09:00-12:00<br> Closed on public holidays

• Finding tools:

  Accession lists or registers
  Card catalogs
  Guides
  

• Copier available?:

  No

Repository publications:

• 7 Medium Regiment Collection. brochure
• Benoni Museum. brochure
• More about Pots. brochure, African pots
• Song and Dance. brochure, African musical instruments
• Stone age to Gold. brochure, History of Benoni
• The Maj. Gen. Neil Webster Collection. brochure