Mammalogy Collection
The Mammal Department represents the newest department of the Museum that was only established in June 1989. From small beginnings, the Museum’s mammal collection has grown rapidly and currently comprises…
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Ornithology Collection
The Ornithology Department houses a world-class collection of bird study skins and other ornithological specimens, including eggs, nests, skeletons, open wings and specimens preserved in ethanol. The bird study skins…
Archaeological Collection
A huge Early Stone Age collection gathered mainly by the late Professor Oliver Davies. He published information on this material in a range of archaeological journals, including the Annals of…
Mollusca Collection
The oldest division in the KwaZulu-Natal Museum is devoted to malacology - the study of animals belonging to the phylum Mollusca. Molluscs are soft-bodied creatures such as sea shells, land…
Herpetology Collection
In terms of the distribution of amphibian and reptile specimens represented in the collection: 99% of specimens are from the southern half of Africa with 90% representing the Free State…
Fort of São Sebastião
The collection includes a 3D model of Fort of São Sebastião, 3D model of Chapel of Nossa Senhora de Baluarte, panorama Tour of Fort of São Sebastião, photographs and maps
National Fish Collection of South Africa
The collection consists of about 80 000 lots of fish specimens (containing at least 650 000 individual fish specimens) from southern Africa and surrounding oceans, and from elsewhere in the…
Slavery in South Africa
The website provide information such as the eras of slavery in the Cape, the slave routes to the Cape, insight into the private lives of the slaves, registers of slaves,…
The UDF Working Group on International Relations Collection
The Working Group on International Relations, a project of the now dissolved UDF, was established in response to the momentous shifts that took place in the geopolitical realm in the…
Allen Isaacman African Studies Collection
Lusophone Africa, probably the largest privately owned collection. This remarkable collection of books and serials represents the concentrated and systematic gathering of both currently available and scarce out of print…