Museum Directors
The McGregor Museum operates under a Board of Trustees, originally aided by the Kimberley Municipality, De Beers and many donors (from 1907), then aided by the Cape Provincial Administration (from 1958) and as a Province-aided Museum receiving an annual grant from the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, Northern Cape Province, which also employs the staff of the museum (post-1994).
Directors of the McGregor Museum have been:
- Maria Wilman (1908–1946)
- John Hyacinth Power (1947–1958)
- Rudolph Carl Bigalke (1958–1964)
- Richard Liversidge (1966–1986)
- Elizabeth Anne Voigt (1987–1999)
The current Museum Director is Colin Fortune (from 2000).
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