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. 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), and the NFI was renamed the Ditsong Museums of South Africa in April 2010. The Ditsong Museums of South Africa are managed by a chief executive officer and a board, which replaced the three separate boards of its component institutions.

Exhibits

The collection of the museum includes historical documents, excavated archaeological material and artworks and various current and historical audio-visual materials. Topics that feature in its work include Stone Age, Iron Age and historic archaeology sites, historical buildings and early domesticated animals.

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File:National Cultural History Museum-025.jpg|Archaeological non-domesticated animal figurines

File:National Cultural History Museum-055.jpg|Sticks

File:National Cultural History Museum-053.jpg|Blended Vinegar bottle, book The Needlewoman Pretoria, egg box

File:National Cultural History Museum-017.jpg|Zhizo pottery from Schroda

File:National Cultural History Museum-033.jpg|San people artefacts

File:National Cultural History Museum-021.jpg|Bird figurines

File:National Cultural History Museum-067.jpg|Historical cameras

File:National Cultural History Museum-061.jpg|Anthropological artefacts: wicker basket, 20th century Basotho fertility doll, vase, drum

File:National Cultural History Museum-081.jpg|San people artefacts

File:National Cultural History Museum-107.jpg|Film projectors

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File:National Cultural History Museum-113.jpg|1977 Apple II computer

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References

  • . Former official website 2010.