Pietermaritzburg - Natal Museum

The Natal Museum, to the south of the City Hall, is one of South Africa's five National Museums. The building dates from 1905. The Museum has collections of South African mammals, birds, amphibians, insects and mollusks as well as valuable paleontological and geological material. The ethnological department has artifacts from different parts of Africa. There are also a room devoted to the history of Natal and a reconstruction of a Victorian street, with houses and shops.