Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History

Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History

Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History entrance
Location	149 Visagie Street, Pretoria, Gauteng
Coordinates	25°45′12″S 28°11′4″E
Type	Cultural history
Public transit access	Gautrain bus dropoff
Website	Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History
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The Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History is a museum that showcases the various stages and forms of culture in South Africa. It is part of the Ditsong Museums of South Africa. The museum is located in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

History

The Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History is housed in the old South African Mint building. The museum was amalgamated with the Pretoria-based Transvaal Museum for Natural History (now the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History and the Johannesburg-based South African National Museum of Military History on 1 April 1999 to form the Northern Flagship Institution (NFI).

In April 2010 the new name was launched, and the NFI became Ditsong Museums of South Africa. Ditsong is managed by a chief executive officer and a board, which replaced the three separate previous museum boards.

Exhibits

The collection of the museum includes objects such as excavated archaeological material and artworks, historical documents, archives, various current and historical audiovisuals, Stone Age, Iron Age and historic archaeology sites, historical buildings, and early domesticated animals.

Gallery

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  Archaeological non-domesticated animal figurines
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  Sticks
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  Blended Vinegar bottle, book The Needlewoman Pretoria, egg box
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  Zhizo pottery from Schroda
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  San people artefacts
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  Bird figurines
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  Historical cameras
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  Anthropological artefacts: wicker basket, 20th century Basotho fertility doll, vase, drum
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  San people artefacts
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  Film projectors
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  1977 Apple II computer

External links

• "The DITSONG: National Museum of Cultural History". ditsong.org.za. DMSA. 2023. Retrieved 24 June 2023. The DITSONG: National Museum of Cultural History explores South Africa's cultural diversity in various permanent and temporary exhibitions..
• "Welcome to DITSONG Museums of South Africa!". ditsong.org.za. Ditsong. 2010. Archived from the original on 5 September 2010. Retrieved 24 June 2023.. Former official website 2010.
• "National Museum of Cultural History. Attractions, Heritage Sites, Recreation". visittshwane.co.za. Tshwane Tourism Association (TTA). 2023. Retrieved 24 June 2023. Exhibitions include rock paintings and engravings of the San people;thousand year old Iron Age figurines from Schroda in the Limpopo Province (described as "the best known artifacts indicating ritual behaviour in the Early Iron Age"); the Art Gallery presents an overview of South African culture through time, using cultural objects, crafts, sculpture and paintings and an exhibition on Marabastad is a true example of a cosmopolitan and fully integrated rainbow nation before apartheid.