Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      War Museum of the Boer Republics

    • Postal Address:

      P.O. Box 704
      9300 Bloemfontein
      South Africa

    • Location:

      Memoriam Road

    • Telephone:

      27-51-4470079; 4473447

    • Facsimile:

      27-51-4471322

    • E-mail:

      museum@anglo-boer.co.za

    • URL:

      http://www.anglo-boer.co.za

    • Director:

      Miss Elsie Maria Wessels

    • Year founded:

      1937

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Museum

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Artifacts
      Manuscripts
      Newspapers
      Personal papers
      Photographs

    • Size:

      9063 documents; 18,000 photographs and negatives

    • Holdings:

      The collection deals primarily with the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 and consists of artifacts, documents (diaries, reminiscences, photographs, letters, some newspapers and clippings of the period.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      Dutch, English, Afrikaans

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      Only bona-fide researchers

    • Finding tools:

      Card catalogs
      Guides
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications:

    • Knapsak. in house magazine, 2-4 issues per year