Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Talana Museum

    • Postal Address:

      P. Bag 2024
      3000 Dundee
      South Africa

    • Telephone:

      27-34-2122654

    • Facsimile:

      27-34-2122376

    • E-mail:

      info@talana.co.za

    • URL:

      www.talana.co.za

    • Director:

      Miss Pamela Noel McFadden

    • Year founded:

      1979

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Museum

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Artifacts
      Business records
      Ecclesiastical records
      Government records
      Manuscripts
      Maps
      Music
      Newspapers
      Personal papers
      Photographs
      Sound recordings

    • Size:

      around 5,500 photographs; 150 research files full of Anglo-Zulu and Anglo-Boer Wars; around 250 biographical family data files

    • Holdings:

      Coal Mining of Natal (official Depot)--thousands of documents; Anglo-Zulu wars/Anglo Boer wars--Largest single search source in South Africa of information relating to Natal. Many unpublished diaries; Agriculture; Glass Manufacture; Biographies of local families. Zulu culture and African beadwork.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      English, French, German, Zulu

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      None

    • Access restrictions:

      Research

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Card catalogs
      Guides
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications: