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.[1]
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The collection of the museum includes objects such as excavated archaeological material and artworks, historical documents, archives, various current and historical audiovisuals, Stone Age, Iron Age and historic archaeology sites, historical buildings, and early domesticated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
Archaeological non-domesticated animal figurines
Sticks
Blended Vinegar bottle, book The Needlewoman Pretoria, egg box
^ ab"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..
"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..
"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.
