Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Kwa Muhle Museum, The Local History Museums

    • Postal Address:

      Old Court House Museum, Aliwal St.
      4000 Durban
      South Africa

    • Location:

      130 Ordnance Road

    • Telephone:

      +27 31 3112223

    • Facsimile:

      +27 31 311 2224

    • E-mail:

      mcclureg@prcsu.durban.gov.za

    • URL:

      http://www.durban.gov.za

    • Director:

      Rooksana Omar

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Museum

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Artifacts
      Ecclesiastical records
      Electronic archives
      Ephemera
      Government records
      Manuscripts
      Music
      Newspapers
      Oral histories
      Photographs
      Posters
      Sound recordings

    • Holdings:

      Ethnographic collections and those specifically related to 20th century material culture of the region (focusing on the struggle of ordinary people to overcome apartheid and the segregationist policies associated with the "Durban system".

    • Receiving new material?

      No

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      Contact the museum

    • Access restrictions:

      Library and collection are closed access, material avaliable by consultation

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Electronic catalogs

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications: