Natural Science Museum in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape

Eastern Cape Things To Do

Natural Science Museum (Grahamstown)

Categories: Museums
Price group: On Request (see other things to do in this price group)
Available in the following region(s): Frontier Country

Address: Albany Museum Complex, Somerset Street, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape
Telephone: +27 (0)46 622-2312
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday from 09h00 to 13h00 and 14h00 to 17h00.
Saturday from 09h00 to 13h00.

The Natural Science Museum in Grahamstown

The oldest of the Albany Museum Complex, the Natural Science Museum, was established in 1855. A visit to this museum will allow you to learn more about the natural history and science of the Eastern Cape. Some of the interesting exhibits include a reconstruction of the first dinosaur discovered in South Africa, the Gibeon meteorite and a working Foucault pendulum.

A fire in 1941 destroyed the building and many of the exhibits and the new exhibits constructed were supplied by museums around the country. Plenty of research takes place at the museum and this centres around the earlylife histories of freshwater fishes, water qualify and management, late Stone-age and early iron-age people and more.

Come and learn more about life before your time, you will find out some interesting facts you didn’t know before!

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