Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      MuseuMAfricA

    • Postal Address:

      Public Library Building, Market Square
      2001 Johannesburg
      South Africa

    • Telephone:

      27-11-833-5624

    • Facsimile:

      27-11-833-5636

    • E-mail:

      museum@mj.org.za

    • Director:

      Mrs. H.J.Bruce, Acting Metropolitan Curator

    • Year founded:

      1935

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Museum

    • Types of source material:

      Artifacts
      Ephemera
      Grey literature
      Manuscripts
      Oral histories
      Personal papers
      Photographs
      Posters
      Sound recordings

    • Size:

      750,000 items

    • Holdings:

      MuseuMAfricA is a major history and cultural history museum, with collections of national importance in historical drawings, paintings and photographs, ethnology, Cape silver, stamps, coins and medals, rock art, and geology. Displays cover the prehistory and social history of Johannesburg, and the longest ever treason trial, 1956-1961. <p> Branches in the main building are the Museum of South African Rock Art, the Bensusan Museum of Photography, and the Geological Museum. Outlying branches are the James Hall Museum of Transport, the Bernberg Fashion Museum, and the George Harrison Park, site of the discovery of gold.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      English, Afrikaans, Dutch, Black South African languages

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      Opening hours: Tuesdays to Sundays 09:00-17:00. Admission fee: R5 adults, R2 children, students, pensioners. Sundays free.

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Card catalogs
      Guides

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications:

    • Africana Museum catalogue of pictures. 7 vols., 1973
    • Africana Museum catalogue of prints. 2 vols., 1975
    • Africana Notes and News. Index 1954-1963, 1964-1973
    • MuseuMAfricA. brochure, n.d.
    • Notes on land transport in South Africa.
    • Oldtown, Newtown.
    • Tried for Treason. resource book