Montagu Museum — Attraction in Langeberg Local Municipality

Unfortunately the museum lacks clarity. There are banners hanging in the walls. Each banner is written in several languages including English and Afrikaans, unfortunately they are hard to follow with the color blocks and it feels very disjointed. When asking the employees about the significance of the church they seemed stunned to be asked such a question and not really informed. The tour of the Joubert house down the street is also included in the price and was much more informative and gave a lot more understanding and history to Montagu. I would make Joubert House your first stop and then go to move onto Old...

I had the privilege of attending a performance by the Zolani Youth Choir, in the Old Mission Church which forms part of the Montagu Museum, at the start of their Eastern Cape Tour. If you ever get the opportunity to watch them - don't miss it!

The church itself, is a fascinating building which is about 114 years old and houses an amazing collection of collection of historical documents and photos relating to Montagu its people.

Joubert House and the KWV building are also part of the museum and areboth also well...

For a start the on-duty staff were truly friendly. Wonderful to see sketches of TO Honiball there , father of a former colleague and well known Cradock artist. The mission church museum once again made me realize how interwoven the history of all SA's people are, while Joubert house took me down memory lane to the story of the Great Trek and what all the Afrikaner gave up...