Our next stop was the Outeniqua Transport Museum in George, part of the Transnet Heritage Foundation collection and one of the most interesting places to explore South Africa’s railway heritage. Housed in a historic locomotive shed dating back to 1932, the museum brings together an...
Our next stop was The Motorcycle Room in Knysna, a fascinating museum located on the top floor of The Parking Shed in Thesen Harbour Town on Thesen Island. It houses a private collection of around 150 motorcycles, ranging from classic road bikes and vintage enduros to motocross machines...
We drove about 45 minutes from Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha) to the Volkswagen AutoPavilion, an ultra-modern heritage centre and automotive museum at the main entrance to Volkswagen Group Africa’s manufacturing plant in Kariega, formerly Uitenhage. Opened in March 2004, the AutoPavilion...
One highlight of our stay in Gqeberha was visiting the St Croix Motor Museum and meeting its passionate owner and curator, Eben de Vos, a true petrolhead who has devoted decades to collecting, preserving, and celebrating South Africa’s automotive heritage. His collection also honours Port...
This was our second visit to the South African Air Force Museum, this time to its Gqeberha branch on the southern side of Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport (formerly Port Elizabeth Airport). A dedicated team of volunteers and the Friends of the SAAF Museum, under the curatorship...
We finally received approval to visit Sandstone Estates, a working commercial farm in South Africa’s Eastern Free State and home to one of the world’s largest private collections of vintage agricultural machinery, railways, military vehicles, and transport history. Upon our...
One of our stops in Pretoria was the South African Air Force Museum, located at the historic Swartkop Air Force Base, one of South Africa’s oldest military airfields. The museum was established in 1973 after Colonel P.J.M. McGregor began an effort to preserve the South African Air...
We spent some time at the Apartheid Museum (🎟️240 ZAR) in Johannesburg, one of the city’s most powerful and essential cultural institutions. The museum tells the story of the rise and fall of South Africa’s apartheid regime, from its origins and implementation to the decades of resistance...
The James Hall Museum of Transport in Johannesburg is South Africa’s largest and most comprehensive land transport museum. Founded in February 1964 by Jimmie Hall in partnership with the City of Johannesburg, the museum has grown into an impressive collection of more than 2,500...
