Mc Gregor Museum - Some Major Museum Projects and Programmes

Some Major Museum Projects and Programmes

• Founding of the South African Museums Association in Kimberley in 1936
• Building of Chapwood Building with funds from McGregor Family, 1950s
• The Griqualand West Story, 1959
• Rudd House donated to the museum, 1969
• Magersfontein Battlefield Museum development, 1971 (refurbished in 1999 for the Anglo-Boer War centenary)
• Move to the Sanatorium and building of new displays, 1973-1976
• Dunluce donated to the museum, 1975
• Memorial to the Pioneers of Aviation Museum, 1981
• Nooitgedacht open air displays, 1985
• Restoration and opening of Rudd House, 1988 (restored again in 2008)
• Opening of the new Humanities Block, 1991
• Wonderwerk Cave Site Museum opening, 1993
• Displays on the coming of democracy opened by Premier Manne Dipico, 1995
• Through Vuzi's Lens - photographic display
• Sol Plaatje Museum displays at 32 Angel Street
• Frontiers Gallery opened by Khuza Bogacwi, 1998
• Ancestors Gallery opened by MEC Brian Hermanus, 1999
• Victoria West Museum displays opened
• Magersfontein Battlefield Museum refurbished for the centenary, 1999
• Siege of Kimberley Concert and Ball, 1999, 2000
• Canteen Kopje and Barkly West Museum, 2000
• Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre public archaeology development, 2001, opened by Premier Manne Dipico and Cheryl Carolus
• Robben Island project exhibition, opened by Ahmed Kathrada, 2001
• Workshop on human remains and publication of Skeletons in the Cupboard, 2001
• Malay Camp and Greenpoint history projects, 2002
• Finalist in first Provincial Premier's Award, 2003
• Ten Years of Democracy displays, 2004, and a contribution to the "Democracy X" exhibition at Iziko South African Museumin Cape Town, in the same year.
• Duggan-Cronin photographic exhibitionat Museum Africa in Johannesburg
• Malay Camp displays opened by Premier Dipuo Peters, 2006
• Duggan-Cronin Gallery restoration and new displays, 2007
• Thandabantu exhibition, Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin and Richard Madela - a photographic journey through Southern Africa 1919-1939, at Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town, 2007
• McGregor Museum Centenary,1907-2007 - restoration of the original museum building with new displays
• Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre declared a Provincial Heritage Site, 19 Sep 2008.
• Rudd House restored and re-opened, 23 Sep 2008.
• Contributed Stow's copies of rock engravings to the "George William Stow Exhibition" at Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town, November 2008.
• Wonderwerk Cave approved as a Grade 1 National Heritage Site, Mar 2009. An international symposium on the site was held at Wonderwerk Cave in June 2009.
• A role in the government project entitled ‘The History of the Liberation Struggle in the Northern Cape’ (2009). “This project will encapsulate our role as a province in the liberation struggle, and will serve as a gift from our veterans to the youth of the province,” said Premier Hazel Jenkins in her State of the Province Address, 12 June 2009. The project was launched at the McGregor Museum on Heritage Day 24 September 2009.
• The "Sacred Legacy" exhibition combining the "Shared Legacies", namely the photographic works of Edward Curtis and Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin, opened at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, 14 October 2009.