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A combined airshow and trade exhibition, also open to the public, taking place biannually in September. There are planes on display, aerobatics and parachuting shows and hands-on activities for kids.
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Monument to the Voortrekkers (Afrikaner pioneers) with a museum of Afrikaner Heritage.
One of the must-visit museum in Pretoria. It comes back on the history of South-Africa, wars and the apartheid. Behind, a beautiful park commemorates all the people that gave their live for freedom and humanity.
Historical articles show the development of the penal system in South Africa from the most barbaric methods to the modern penological system of today. The pursuit of hobbies by prisoners is portrayed by matchstick work, art objects, wood and stone carvings. Objects illegally made by prisoners and which are confiscated, are displayed, such as dagga pipes, forged keys and money, tattooing machines, and stabbing and cutting weapons.
Where the peace treaty that ended the Anglo-Boer War as signed in 1902.
Transvaal Museum
Where you can meet Mrs. Pless when she is not on tour somewhere.
Learn about the people and the cultures of South Africa, from the Iron Age till today. (Wheelchair accessible). Exhibitions include rock paintings and engravings of the San people; 1000-year-old Iron Age figurines from Schroda in the Limpopo Province (described as “the best known artifacts indicating ritual behaviour in the Early Iron Age”); the Art Gallery presents an overview of South African culture through time, using cultural objects, crafts, sculpture and paintings and an exhibition on Marabastad is a true example of a cosmopolitan and fully integrated rainbow nation before apartheid.