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Cultural Heritage Resources

TANGIBLES, MOVABLE

 

Objects 

Excluding excavated Archaeological material

214 400

Excavated archaeological material 

2 214 000

Artworks (including folk art in house museums)

5 600

 

 

Documents 

Historical collection

12 000

Museum archive

 50 rack metres

Documentation archive

80 rack metres

Typology and nomenclature archive 

50 rack metres

Archaeological archive (excavations)

20 rack metres

Press cuttings

1 000

Database of Prisoner’s of War (SA War) 

900

  

Printed collections 

Library 

18 500

Offices

  250

Historical collection

9 900

Tswaing archive

450

Conservation archive

1 500

 

 

Audiovisuals 

Historical photographs

235 000

Generated by museum staff : negatives

 150 000

Generated by museum staff : slides

 10 500

Generated by museum staff : Tswaing slides

750

Generated by museum staff : Ndebele slides

285

Generated by museum staff : Archaeology and Anthropology slides (Sites, places, activities, events, people)

 10 000

Generated by museum staff : Archaeology and Anthropology photos (Sites, places, activities, events, people)

 20 000

Generated by museum staff : Historic architectural elements slides (buildings, sites, environment, landscape)

 6 000

Generated by museum staff : Historic architectural elements photographs (buildings, sites, environment, landscape)

 12 000

Generated by museum staff : Sunnyside and Pretoria slides

350

Generated by museum staff : Blockhouse slides

 150

Generated by museum staff : Blockhouse photos

150

Dutch Museums : slides

100

Development of guns in SA photos

35

Clothing, household linen, soft furnishings slides

 200

Farm activities  slides

100

Anglo-Boer War photocopies of photos

 400

Sammy Marks Museum history

120

Videos

70

 

 

TANGIBLES, IMMOVABLE

 

Sites on NFI museum land

Stone Age

Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum  (1 site)

Iron Age

Sammy Marks Museum  (1 site) 
Tswaing (2 sites)

Historic archaeology

Battlefield of Diamond Hill, Donkerhoek (information and research)
Kaalfontein as farm (interviews and historic photos of all the buildings and structures) (Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum, 1 site excavated)
Hartebeespoort as farm (interviews and historic photos of buildings and structures) (Pioneer Museum, 1 site excavated)
Kruger House Museum
Tswaing (remains of salt extraction works and residences)

 

 

Sites not on museum land - information held by museum 

Database of 2 000 sites of cultural significance  

Information on 3 200 sites of historic significance  

Roodepoort 418JS, Middelburg as farm (interviews and historic photos of all the buildings and structures (Bosman collection)  

Information on farms and farming in the Bronkhorstspruit, Cullinan and Rayton area  

Erasmus House at Brakfontein (photographic information).  

Sites for plaques in and around greater Pretoria  

Mapochs Village past and present  

Settlements around Tswaing  

AECI House  

Krygkor house 

 

Places - Museum buildings 

 

Bantu Commissioners Building

Main and outbuildings

Coert Steynberg Museum

5 buildings

Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum

Prinsloo farmstead  -    6 buildings
1913 house          -    1 building

Pioneer Museum

5 buildings 

Sammy Marks Museum

Main house          -    1 building 
Cottages       -    5 buildings
Outbuildings        -    7 buildings

Kruger House Museum

1 building

 

 

Places - Non museum buildings 

Information on 7 000 buildings of historic and/or architectural significance

Sculptures 

16 at 2 house museums 

INTANGIBLES

Voices - values -traditions - Languages 

Tape recordings of local music and songs

 50 hours

Tape recordings of local oral traditions

 20 hours

Farm houses, farmyards and farm life recorded interviews

45 hours

Homes and lifestyle

 25 hours

Museum history

5 hours

Tswaing - crater, tradition, medicinal plants, communities, settlers

 

 

 

EARLY DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 

 

Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum

Nguni cattle 8
Afrikaner cattle 5
Blinkhaar Ronderib Afrikaner sheep 6
Bezuidenhout sheep 4
Damara sheep 8
Namakwa Afrikaner sheep 14
Nguni sheep 9
Pedi sheep 9
Rooi Persie sheep 4
Rooi Skilder Persie sheep 3
Swart Persie sheep 6
Swartskilder sheep 4
Steekhaar Ronderib Afrikaner sheep 4
Van Rooy sheep 11
Kolbroek pigs  
Windsnyer pigs  
Koekoek chickens 23
Zulu chickens 4
Venda chickens 4
Uilbaard chickens 7
Kaalnek chickens 3
Stompstert chickens 7

Pioneer Museum

Namakwa Afrikaner sheep 16 

  Designed by and was last updated on 14 June 2003