Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      National Museum

    • Postal Address:

      P.O. Box 266
      9300 Bloemfontein
      South Africa

    • Location:

      36 Aliwal Street

    • Telephone:

      27-51-479609

    • Facsimile:

      27-51-479681

    • E-mail:

      library@nasmus.co.za

    • URL:

      http://www.nasmus.co.za

    • Director:

      Dr. C.M. Engelbrecht

    • Year founded:

      1877

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Museum

    • Types of source material:

      Artifacts
      Manuscripts
      Photographs

    • Size:

      8770 books; 2600 serial titles; accession 1285 numbers annually; 6150 pamphlets (articles information pieces for research); 200 maps

    • Holdings:

      Museum houses cultural as well as natural history collections, including collections assembled in the fields of palaeontology, entomology, arachnology, mammalogy, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, botany, cultural history, rock art and fine arts. Satellite museums include the Freshford House Museum, First Raadsaal Museum, Wagon Museum, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, and Florisbad Quaternary Research Station.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      English, Afrikaans

  • Access Conditions

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Card catalogs
      Electronic catalogs

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications:

    • Culna. Publication of the Education Department of the National Museum
    • Memoirs. series stopped
    • Navorsinge van die Nationale Museum. (Researches of the National Museum)