HISTORY

The Bushman Heritage Museum

For thousands of Years the /Xam Bushman lived in the Great Karoo. Within 250 years of the coming of the Dutch and English settlers, they had been driven into extinction. But they had a profound understanding of the creation of the sun, moon, and stars, and world. Their stories are startlingly relevant in our current times of environmental catastrophe. They were saved by a sort of miracle, in a manuscript that has been studied and interpreted in giant tapestries and the Bushman Heritage Museum for twenty Years by Bushman descendants.

Activities on Offer

THIS WORLD CLASS ATRACTION OFFERS:

Gallery of Tapestries, with a guide to explain the stories (We charge a standard entrance fee),
Accommodation for up to 16 guests. Our rooms, from our quirky round bed in a three story tower, to charming Priory, to luxurious Heritage House, are full of contemporary Bushman art,
A Licensed Café with famous Karoo Lamb, and vegetarian dishes made with our home grown produce (main meal price ranges between R130-R165),
A gallery shop to purchase original lino prints and textiles made at the museum,
Warm hospitality and a chance to talk with our Bushman artist who run the Centre