Museums

The St Croix Motor Museum displays a private collection of vintage and classic vehicles dating back to 1901.

Mowbray Street, Newton Park (next to Westview School). Tel: 083-463 5286 (curator). Visits at 11h00 and 15h00 can be arranged by contacting the curator. Also open on Saturdays from 14h00 to 17h00.

PE Museum and Bayworld blends both the cultural and natural history of South Africa and boasts a variety of displays and exhibits. The most noteworthy is the 15 m skeleton of the last Southern Right whale harpooned in Algoa Bay, a life-sized reconstruction of the giant prehistoric dinosaur known as Algoasaurus, a replica of the Diaz Cross and 5 m bronze cannon dated 1640 recovered from a Portuguese galleon wrecked near Port Elizabeth.

Regretfully, dolphin shows are a thing of the past as the oceanarium is closed for renovations. 2 of PE’s remaining dolphins have been re-housed at Ocean Park in Hong Kong.

Beach Road, Humewood. Tel: 041-5840650. Entrance fee is charged. Open Mon to Sun 09h00 to 16h30. Closed Christmas Day.

The South African Air force Museum is located on the southern side of the airport in a restored World War 2 hangar. The museum boasts a total of nine aircraft, including helicopters, a supersonic jet fighter, two world famous Harvard trainers and the oldest surviving jet fighter in SA, amongst others.

Forest Hill Drive, Southdene. Tel: 041-505 1295. Open Mon to Fri 09h00 to 15h00, Sun 10h00 to 16h00. Closed on Sat and public holidays.

The Red Location Museum of Struggle was built primarily as a tribute to the liberation struggle against apartheid. Its unconventional stark but spacious structure includes a series of memory boxes consisting of twelve lofty free-standing galleries that house a diversity of photographic and art exhibitions is situated on the corner Olaf Palme and Singaphi Street, Red Location, New Brighton.

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