East London Museum — Attraction in Buffalo City Ward 18

For a small museum it houses some famous stuff. This is the place that houses the world renowned Coelacanth - the extremely rare fish that was caught near East London, of which fossils have also been found dating back to the Devonian era, 400 million years ago. The museum also has the only known egg from the extinct Dodo bird. And a set of fossilised human footprints in beach sand dating back 200,000 years and believed to be the oldest human footprints in the world. There are also displays on shipwrecks along the local coast and Xhosa tribal life and...

I went for nostalgia. It was a very pleasant visit. The place seems to be well maintained. The only issue I had was that the place seems a bit dull now. Maybe it's because I haven't been there for years...

Overall It was a nice outing for my little one. He enjoyed seeing all these new but old items and experiencing the museum for the first time with him was a memory I'll cherish. It's a lovely little outing for the...

Lovely museum to visit. The shell and crystal collections and fish models are pleasant to view. The shell collection is definitely worth seeing. It was donated to the museum by a shell collector whose passion is displayed in the volume of shells the exhibit contains. Other exhibits include: the coelacanth, world war one, indigenous tribes and the lifestyle of the european settlers. Relics of old shipwrecks are...