Contact Information

• Name:

  South African Museum

• Postal Address:

  P.O. Box 61
  Cape Town
  South Africa

• Location:

  25 Queen Victoria Street

• Telephone:

  27-21-4243330

• Facsimile:

  27-21-4246716

• E-mail:

  mcluver@samuseum.ac.za

• URL:

  http://www.museums.org.za/sam/index.htm

• Director:

  Dr. Michael Albert Cluver

• Year founded:

  1825

Collections

• Type of repository:

  Museum

• Types of source material:

  Archival records
  Artifacts
  Photographs
  

• Size:

  African Studies collection: about 15,000 artifacts

• Holdings:

  The South African Museum holds collections in the fields of the human sciences (cultural anthropology, rock art, archaeology, physical anthropology); life sciences (biological collections); earth sciences (palaeology, geology). Regional focus: Southern Africa.

• Receiving new material?

  No

• Languages:

  English
  

Access Conditions

• Access conditions:

  Bona fide researchers are wellcome to apply in writing to have access to the study collections

• Finding tools:

  Accession lists or registers
  Card catalogs
  

• Copier available?:

  No

Repository publications:

• Annals of the South African Museum. 1898-
• Musinews. Informal monthly newsletter
• The Margaret Shaw Lecture series. Special publication on material culture