Kimberley - McGregor Museum

The McGregor Museum is housed in a former sanatorium established in 1897 on the initiative of Cecil Rhodes. During the four-month siege of Kimberley by the Boers in 1900 Rhodes lived in two rooms on the ground floor. The building is still furnished as it was around the turn of the century. The sanatorium later became a hotel and still later a school. Since 1971 it has housed the McGregor Museum, specializing in natural history and religious history. The museum also has a section on the history of the town, with particular emphasis on the days of the diamond rush.