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The Anglo-Boer War Museum (also known as The War Museum of the Boer Republics) in Bloemfontein is the only museum in the world dedicated solely to the Anglo-Boer Wars of 1899 to 1902. The museum has a unique art collection, dioramas and exhibits but also brings the visitor closer to understanding the background against which the war took place. [2]
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.
The statue was dismantled in June 2020 and reassembled at the Anglo-Boer War Museum (also known as The War Museum of the Boer Republics) under oversight of a heritage architect in August 2020. The statue is situated 200 metre from the National Women's Monument near the graves of Steyn and his wife, Tibbie.
The National Women's Monument [1] (Afrikaans: Nasionale Vrouemonument) in Bloemfontein, South Africa, is a monument commemorating the roughly 27,000 Boers who died in British concentration camps during the Second Boer War. The Monument is a Provincial Heritage Site [1] in the Free State.
Anglo-Boer War Blockhouse, Drakensberg Botanical Garden, Harrismith This Anglo-Boer War blockhouse is situated on the town commonage of Harrismith, to the north-east of the town. In 1901 the British military authorities built a formidable system of blockhouses in the north-eastern Orange Free State. One of the lines of the Type of site: Blockhouse.
The city hosts numerous museums, including the National Women's Monument, the Anglo-Boer War Museum, the National Museum, and the Oliewenhuis Art Museum. Bloemfontein also hosts the first digital planetarium in the southern hemisphere, the Naval Hill Planetarium, and Boyden Observatory, an astronomical research observatory. Bloemfontein is ...
They contend that the Boers of the South African Republic and Orange Free State republics were recognised as a separate people or cultural group under international law by the Sand River Convention (which created the South African Republic in 1852), [27] the Bloemfontein Convention (which created the Orange Free State Republic in 1854), the ...
Walkway in the Free State National Botanical Garden. The Free State National Botanical Garden, located just outside Bloemfontein covers 70 hectares, and is home to about 400 species of plants, largely native to Free State and Northern Cape Provinces and Lesotho.