MUSEUM AND BATTLEFIELD OF TALANA
Museum featuring an exhibition on coal mining and a gallery on the history of glassmaking.
If we were to choose to see only one museum in the area, it would be this one, the museum and battlefield of Talana. Several buildings were built around the house of Peter Smith, one of the city's founders, on the very site of the Battle of Talana (October 20, 1899). A quick look at the coal mining exhibition and the gallery of the history of glass work. See in passing the superb pieces by René Lalique and the Daum brothers. Next door, visit the gallery of old Dundee, in the days of the splendour of "Coalopolis". In the entrance hall, statues of George Jansen, a child of the town, who was Governor General of the Union in 1951 with his wife Martha Pelissier, the granddaughter of the French missionary Jean-Pierre Pelissier, founder of Bethulia in the Orange Free State. She was the author of the first grammar of the Afrikaans language. You will then have to cross the large park to discover the main wing of the museum, with its different sections: paleontology, cannibals (of the region!), Anglo-Zulu war, Boer war (and the concentration camps). You will certainly make an attentive stopover in front of the showcase dedicated to Prince Napoleon, killed in 1879. His body was brought back to Dundee by mounted troops. If you're on legs, it's worth the cost to do the Talana Trail of about thirty minutes on foot, which follows the advance of the British troops on the hill.
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