Museums and Buildings (Category) - 137 posts

Downtown Joburg has so many beautiful places that Joburgers either: a) don't know about; or b) are afraid to visit. Here are my top 5.

Transwerke, an old maternity hospital near Constitution Hill in Hillbrow, has recently become a collection of artists' studios.

Somerset House, a historic building on Gandhi Square, has become the headquarters for JoburgPlaces. There are big plans in the works for this 1906 building.

The oldest surviviing house in Johannesburg, built by Voortrekker Barend Viljoen in 1852 and later owned by the Bezuidenhout, is hidden in Bez Valley Park.

The Wonders of Rock art is a exhibition of French and South African rock art, on display at the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in Newtown until 1 October 2018.

I had an amazing opportunity to go to the top of the Sentech Tower, aka the Brixton Tower, which hardly anybody ever gets to do.

In a quick day trip into Washington D.C., my father and I visited the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The Long March to Freedom National Historic Monument in Pretoria is a collection of hundreds of life-size sculptures of heroes in the South African struggle for …

One month after its opening, I visited the Jacob Zuma Arrest Site in Groot Marico, Northwest Province. It was...an interesting experience.

I spent half a day in Cullinan, a historic diamond-mining town northeast of Pretoria. I did pretty much everything except tour the diamond mine.

During the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation's annual Heritage Weekend, I walked through two of historic middle-class suburbs, Killarney and Forest Town.

Welcome to Week 31 of my #Gauteng52 challenge, for which I visit and blog about a new place in Gauteng Province every week for 52 straight weeks. This week I …