COLLECTION

Our unique and varied collection is currently being reorganized so as to reflect our museum’s vision

“To ensure the Fort Beaufort Historical Museum represents the history of all the peoples and the main events of the Fort Beaufort area.”

CULTURAL MELTING POT

Earliest Inhabitants  – prehistoric and the San

The Khoekhoe  and the Kat River Settlement 1829-1856

The amaXhosa   including an exhibit “The Xhosa Chiefs”

The MFengu

The Europeans

FRONTIER CONFLICT

Fort Beaufort Military Structures

Frontier Wars 6th 7th & 8th

Thomas Baines “Fort Hare and Alice”

FRONTIER COOPERATION

Missionaries

Education – Healdtown

FORT BEAUFORT TOWN & DISTRICT

growth of a community

Farming in the Kat River Valley

Water and Barage

Thomas Baines “Hammonds”