page_title: Pretoria
section_title: Museums
hierarchical_section_title: Pretoria / Culture / Museums
caption_attribution_description: English: Transvaal Museum This media shows a South African Protected Site with SAHRA file reference 9/2/258/0100.
context_page_description: Pretoria, also known as Tshwane, is one of South Africa’s three capital cities, serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa.
  Pretoria straddles the Apies River and extends eastward into the foothills of the Magaliesberg mountains. It has a reputation as an academic city and center of research, being home to the Tshwane University of Technology, the University of Pretoria, Sefako Makgatho Health Science University, the University of South Africa, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and the Human Sciences Research Council. It also hosts the National Research Foundation and the South African Bureau of Standards. Pretoria was one of the host cities of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Pretoria is the eighth richest city in Africa and the fourth richest in South Africa.
  Pretoria is the central part of the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality which was formed by the amalgamation of several former local authorities, including Centurion and Soshanguve. Some have proposed changing the official name from Pretoria to Tshwane, which has caused some public controversy.
context_section_description: Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History a.k.a. African Window
  Freedom Park
  Hapo Museum
  Kruger House (Residence of the president of the ZAR, Paul Kruger)
  Mapungubwe Museum
  Melrose House (The Treaty of Vereeniging which ended the Anglo-Boer War was signed here in 1902)
  National Library of South Africa
  Pioneer Museum
  Pretoria Art Museum
  Pretoria Forts
  South African Air Force Museum
  Transvaal Museum
  Van Tilburg Collection
  Van Wouw Museum
  Voortrekker Monument
  Willem Prinsloo Agricultural Museum
  Sammy Marks House
  Smuts House Museum
caption: The Transvaal Museum
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