This museum is about the size of two classrooms with a smattering of artefacts (mining, historic cooking stuff, glass bottles, memoribilia of Queen Elizabeth and Princess Diana, some local legends, and a lot of china sets). They artefacts are mostly labelled, which is appreciated. But the museum host was very intent on conversation and while we appreciated the help we never got a chance to just look around and read or talk to each other. It was quick and I am sure of great interest to locals as so many of the displays required knowledge of the town, but for an outsider the $4 price was...
Read moreMy wife and I spent a few hours in Kimberley on our way through the area. One of the highlights of our short time there was our visit to the Heritage Museum. We were particularly interested in learning more about the mining history of the area. There was plenty of information and history about the Sullivan Mine, and the knowledge of Marie was...
Read moreA lovely mix of photo's, memorabilia and exhibits to illustrate Kimberley's mining history and evolution into a tourism based city. Who knew a Kimberley climber made it to Everest?
Accessible by wheelchair (lift at rear I believe) and allowed my...
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