Museums & Galleries

Gauteng’s historical landscape spans from the dawn of humanity at the Cradle of Humankind’s Sterkfontein Caves and Maropeng to the 19th-century military fortifications of Fort Schanskop and Fort Klapperkop. This collection features the Origins Centre's extensive rock art and the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History's paleontological fossils. It includes preserved Victorian estates like Melrose House and the Sammy Marks Museum, alongside the active Premier Diamond Mine and the unique traditional medicine displays at the KwaZulu Muti Museum.

Origins Centre

A great museum with fantastic interactive and educational exhibits. You will learn about our ancestors and see a collection of rock art.

Sterkfontein Caves

Sterkfontein is a set of limestone caves of special interest in paleoanthropology located in Gauteng province, about 40 kilometres…

Maropeng Cradle of Humankind Museum. The Tumulus building

This visitor center for the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage site is housed in a distinctive burial-mound-shaped building. Exhibits trace the four-billion-year evolution of life and human development through fossil displays, stone tools, and an underground boat ride depicting the earth's formation.

National Museum of Natural History

The Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, formerly the Transvaal Museum, is a natural history museum situated in Pretoria, South…

Premier Diamond Mines

The Cullinan Diamond is the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found, weighing 3,106 carats, discovered at the Premier No.2 mine in…

Melrose House

Melrose House is a stately mansion and museum located opposite Burgers Park in Pretoria, South Africa.

Fort Schanskop

This military fort was designed by German engineering company Krupp. It was very modern and well-equipped for those days.

Fort Klapperkop

This military fort was constructed by German engineers. It served during the Anglo-Boer wars.

Sammy Marks

Very impressive colonial homestead belonged to Sammy Marks. It is perfectly preserved and recalls back the golden era of this house.

KwaZulu Muti Museum of Man and Science

A spooky shop selling traditional herbal medicine. Let the healer throw the bones and prescribe some of the numerous dried herbs.