Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Transvaal Museum

    • Postal Address:

      P.O. Box 413
      1 Pretoria
      South Africa

    • Location:

      Paul Kruger Street

    • Telephone:

      27-12-3227632

    • Facsimile:

      27-12-3227939

    • E-mail:

      KEMP@NFI.ORG.ZA

    • URL:

      http://www.nfi.org.za

    • Director:

      Dr. Alan Kema (manager)

    • Year founded:

      1898

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Museum

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Artifacts
      Ephemera
      Manuscripts
      Personal papers
      Sound recordings

    • Size:

      2.8 million

    • Holdings:

      Fossils and natural history specimens, in particular of palaeo-hominids, archaeozoology, mammalogy, ornithology, erpetology, coleoptera, arachnids, general entomology, lepidoptera, mainly from Southern Africa.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      English, Afrikaans, German

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      By appointments to collections.

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Card catalogs
      Electronic catalogs

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications:

    • Annals of the Transvaal Museum.
    • Transvaal Museum Monographs.