Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History

The Museum is centrally located behind the Pretoria City Hall. This museum explores South Africa’s cultural diversity through various permanent and temporary exhibitions. The exhibitions cover various topics such as Rock Painting and Engravings of the San people, and thousand year old Iron Age figurines from the Schroda Iron Age sites in the Limpopo River basin along the northern border of the L

impopo Province (described by some scholars as “the best-known artifacts indicating ritual behaviour in the Early Iron Age”). The Art Gallery presents an overview of South African art through time, using objects, crafts, sculpture and paintings. An exhibition on Marabastad reflects on this urban centre that has always been associated with the history of Indian settlers and their contribution to commerce in Pretoria. The most recent exhibition ‘Objects with Stories’, addresses the concept of ‘meaning’ as reflected by museum collections in general, but in particular the meaning of selected objects in the collection of this museum. The objects contain and represent the values and stories associated with their origin, manufacture, use or contextual relationships with the regions where they came from and the communities and individuals who used them. The Museum’s education programmes integrate History, Geography, Arts and Culture, Technology and Life orientation. All programmes are based on the Revised National Curriculum Statement. Remember to visit the Museum shop.