This list of museums in South Africa is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.
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| Name | Province | Location | Image | Type | Notes | Coordinates | SAHRIS Site Reference | |
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| Fort Beaufort Museum | Eastern Cape | |||||||
| Eastern Cape | 9/2/003/0016 | |||||||
| Observatory Museum | Eastern Cape | 9/2/003/0045 | ||||||
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| Schreiner House Museum | Eastern Cape | -32.1735°N 25.6179°W | ||||||
| Eastern Cape | Military Aviation | http://www.saafmuseum.org.za/ | -33.9897°N 25.6178°W | |||||
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| East London Museum | Eastern Cape |
| Name | Province | Location | Image | Type | Notes | Coordinates | ||
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| Free State | Military | http://www.anglo-boer.co.za/ | -29.235°N 26.3567°W | |||||
| Free State | Natural History, Cultural History, Art | http://www.nasmus.co.za | -29.115°N 26.2189°W | |||||
| South African Armour Museum | Free State | Military | ||||||
| Parys Museum, Parys | Free State | Natural History, Cultural, Religious | https://web.archive.org/web/20120327172119/http://www.parysmuseum.co.za/ |
| Name | Province | Location | Image | Type | Notes | Coordinates |
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| KwaZulu-Natal | -27.7464°N 29.9214°W | |||||
| Himeville Museum | KwaZulu-Natal | |||||
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| KwaZulu-Natal Museum | KwaZulu-Natal | http://www.nmsa.org.za/ | ||||
| Voortrekker Museum | KwaZulu-Natal | http://www.voortrekkermuseum.co.za/ | ||||
| The Old Prison Museum | KwaZulu-Natal |
| Name | Province | Location | Image | Type | Notes | Coordinates | |
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| Eersteling Monuments | Limpopo | Industrial | The site of the country's first gold crushing site and its first gold power plant are marked by monuments | ||||
| The Irish House | Limpopo | Residential | Historic building which functions as a museum. | ||||
| Bakone Malapa Northern Sotho Open-Air Museum | Limpopo | Cultural, "living" | Depicts the traditional and modern-day lifestyle of the Bakone people. | ||||
| Limpopo | Archaeological |
| Name | Province | Location | Image | Type | Notes | Coordinates | |
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| Mpumalanga | Accident memorial | The site where Mozambican President Samora Machel lost his life in an aeroplane accident. | |||||
| Barberton Museum | Mpumalanga | Local history, geology, archaeology, cultural | Museum focussing on the Barberton district and Swazi cultural group | ||||
| Krugerhof Museum | Mpumalanga | Second Boer War | Museum housed in an old farm house used by the Transvaal Government in exile | ||||
| Mpumalanga | Cultural | The entire gold-rush town of Pilgrim's Rest has been preserved as a living museum |
| Name | Province | Location | Image | Type | Notes | Coordinates |
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| Northern Cape | ||||||
| Northern Cape | -30.9522°N 19.4469°W | |||||
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| Northern Cape | -30.9517°N 19.4469°W | |||||
| Sonskip Living Museum (an earthship) | Northern Cape | -29.8167°N 24.4114°W | ||||