Departments
The registered history collection of the McGregor Museum dates from 1951, although historical items were donated even earlier in the museum’s history. In the 1960s the collection received a real boost through the energies of Dr and Mrs GA Fock, a trend encouraged by Dr Richard Liversidge. In 1967 policy changed and the museum was no longer a Natural History Museum but a General Museum, with the first professional historian being appointed in 1970.
Cultural History Documents & Manuscripts Living History
Military History Photographic Collections
Functions & Services Policy Contact Us
Functions
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Developing historical displays for the McGregor Museum as well as for museums throughout the Northern Cape.
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Developing travelling displays and educational resource materials.
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Developing historical walking tours as an exciting and informal way to introduce the history of small towns in the Northern Cape to tourists.
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Developing temporary historical displays to attract people from all communities to our museum.
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Conducting interviews for oral history purposes.
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Curating, developing and conserving the document and manuscript as well as the photographic collections relating to the history of the Northern Cape.
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Conserving cultural items of the past for the people of the future.
Services
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To carry out historical research relating to the social, cultural, commercial, political (including Forced Removals and Forgotten Suburbs), religious and genealogical aspects of the Northern Cape.
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Training employees of Provincial museums in basic museum skills.
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Assist in the museum’s educational programmes through information service, demonstrations and lectures and guided tours, including tours of Rudd House, Dunluce, Sanatorium, Duggan-Cronin Gallery
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Outreach to disabled communities in Kimberley by arranging tea and doing guided tours for relatively small groups at a time.
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Educational outreach to communities in the Northern Cape who do not have access to a museum.
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Providing efficient exchange of historical data between our document and manuscript collection and other archives, research libraries and academic institutions.
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Giving advice on handling of cultural objects.
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Assist researchers both academic and general with inquiries.
