MuseuMAfricA
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Museum Africa or MuseuMAfricA (formerly known as the Africana Museum) is a historical museum in Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- history museum
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Newtown
- Location
- Newtown
- Official website
- www.gauteng.net:80/attractions/entry/museum_africa
- Image
- MuseumAfrica.JPG
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- inception
- 1933-01-01
- date of official opening
- 1935-00-00
- Commons category
- Museum Africa
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Museum Africa or MuseuMAfricA (formerly known as the Africana Museum) is a historical museum in Newtown, Johannesburg, South Africa.
== History == The museum was established in 1933, when the Johannesburg Public Library bought a large quantity of Africana material and books from John Gaspard Gubbins. From the mid-1930s, the museum's scope widened to include all aspects of African cultural history and material culture.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “MuseuMAfricA” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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