Visitors to the museum are encouraged to view the range of displays offered in the Museum, as displays are an important part of the knowledge, education and edutainment offered in the museum.
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Huberta: The World's most Famous Hippo |
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Huberta
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 The Amathole Museum is the home of Huberta, the world's most famous hippopotamus. More than seventy five years after her death, young and old are still captivated by the story of her wanderings.
Huberta's probable birthplace was in northern KwaZulu Natal. In 1928 she first came to public notice and during the course of her 2 1/ 2 year journey, frequently made headline news.
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History Displays
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The aim of the exhibition is to tell the story of 19th century King William’s Town in all its facets, including conflict, acculturation, coexistence and cooperation. This is achieved by utilizing both the history and anthropology collections. The old Eurocentric displays, which omitted important information and ignored certain aesthetic and museological principles, were replaced with a new multi-cultural exhibition. The new approach has important educational implications, promoting an understanding of local history and culture.
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Xhosa Gallery
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MAQOMA (1798-1873)
Maqoma was the greatest Xhosa warrior, guerilla general and leader of the nineteenth century.
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History Displays
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Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives1 pays tribute to local women. The display presents an array of compelling portraits, illustrating the many different ways women have contributed to the shaping of our society, both through their careers and in quiet everyday ways that are rarely recognised today.
The featured biographies include Amelia Alice Elizabeth Ball (of Mrs Ball's Chutney fame), Alice Duna Mamcete Biko (mother to Steve Biko), Katy Izally (local personality, organiser and fundraiser extraordinary), Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge (Human Rights lawyer and well-known 'struggle' personality), Sister Mary Mauritia Tiefenboeck (first Prioress of the local Dominican convent) and Nozipho Mina Barbara Mamkwayi Tsotsobe (also known as Sis B, a pioneer female radio announcer). |
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Mammals
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Wolsak Story (abridged)
THE CAPE BUFFALO (Bos caffer) was formerly found throughout the whole of South Africa, but the combined assaults of its only two enemies, the lion and man, have in some districts so reduced its members that according to Drummond writing as far back as 1875, where there were formerly herds from ten to one hundred in numbers, now not ten are to be found. Although Buffaloes are reckoned the most dangerous of South African animals, few instances occur of them charging without provocation, and the number of lives lost in buffalo hunting is probably due to want of care in approaching wounded animals. When charging, a Buffalo does not lower his head but raises his nose in the air, and just before reaching his object, suddenly twists its head round sideways and impales his foe.
 The specimen on exhibition was shot near Trappe’s Valley in the Bathurst district of the Eastern Cape in 1906 and Mr Pym (the first director of the Amathole Museum) gave the following account of how it was secured:- |
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The Missionary Museum was constructed in 1855 as a Wesleyan Chapel. In 1894 it was sold to the Baptists who used it as a mission church until the enforcement of the Group Areas Act led to the closure of the church. The museum opened it doors to the public in 1976 and functions as a satellite of the Amathole Museum.