Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      McGregor Museum

    • Postal Address:

      P.O. Box 316
      8301 Kimberley
      South Africa

    • Location:

      2 Egerton Road

    • Telephone:

      27-53-8392700

    • Facsimile:

      27-531-8421433

    • E-mail:

      cfortune@museumsnc.co.za

    • URL:

      http://www.museumsnc.co.za

    • Director:

      Mr. Colin Frederick Fortune

    • Year founded:

      1907

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Museum

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Artifacts
      Business records
      Ecclesiastical records
      Ephemera
      Manuscripts
      Newspapers
      Personal papers
      Photographs
      Sound recordings

    • Size:

      around 70,000 documents; around 10,000 ethnology photos; around 10,000 historical and military history

    • Holdings:

      Social history, military history, ethnology of the Northern Cape, especially Griqualand West and Kimberley. Botanical and zoological collections, specific to Northern Cape Province of South Africa.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      English, Afrikaans

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      Available to all researchers. Application should be made to the Archivist who will supply details of hours opened and conditions of access or restrictions on access will apply to some papers.

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Card catalogs
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications:

    • McGregor Miscellany.
    • McGregor News.
    • Museum Annual Report.