Culture in Polokwane

To experience some culture in Polokwane one can go to the following places:

• The Polokwane Museum is based in a beautiful Late Victorian shop building and was built in 1906 by a German immigrant and sold in 1920 and he named the shop Irish house. The building was restored to its former glory in 1986 when it became a museum. Themes depicting the different cultures of the different peoples of the Limpopo Province can be viewed.
• The Bakone Malapa Museum (meaning homestead of the local ethnic group Bakone) depicts the traditional way of life of the Northern Sotho People. The museum was designed and developed to form link with an archaeological site of complex stone walling dating from the 17th century. Traditional cultural aspects such as hut building and thatching, various crafts including pottery, skin work, woodcarving, basketry and metal word are demonstrated at the homestead. There is well trained guides that conduct the guided tours. At the kiosk you could busy some souvenirs. It is situated in bushveld surroundings about 9km outside Polokwane on the Burgersford road and quite inexpensive to enter.
• The Hugh Exton Photographic Museum is in the first Dutch Reformed Church that was built in Polokwane in 1890. It contains one of the most valuable cultural historical collections in South Africa. You can view about 23 000 photos that was taken by Hugh Exton and it is mainly of Polokwane and its people form the 1890 to 1945. This unique and delicate collection is preserved in this old church while prints of some of these negatives unlock the events of the past in a unique way. The exhibition includes topics such as the birth and development of Polokwane, trade and industries, architecture, clothing and famous town residents.
• Polokwane Art Museum is housed in the Library Gardens Complex and it's got a growing collection of more than a thousand pieces and is the most extensive municipal collection outside the well known art centres in the country. The museum is not limited to an indoor display area only but also consists of two other components namely the Industrial Art park right next to the N1 north to Makhado and the bronze and steel sculptures all over the city, the main focus of course the City Plaza. It is free to enter.

Concentration Camp Cemetery, This is an idyllic cemetery housing the graves of the victims of a nearby Anglo Boer War concentration camp where at one point almost 4 000 people were housed