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boasts more proclaimed national monuments than any other town in South Africa
- conservation policy is practised to ensure the architecture is retained
- walk back through history from Parsonage Street onwards
- fascinating museums, art galleries, homes, churches and old shops, monuments, restored
buildings and historical associations
- homes range from charming Karoo-style cottages to magnificent Victorian and Cape Dutch
- the Graaff-Reinet Museum
comprises four buildings:
1. Reinet House
- Murray Street
- a cultural history museum
- built in Cape Dutch style
- boasts a huge grapevine planted in 1870
2. The Old Library
- corner of Church and Somerset Streets
- houses fossilised Karoo reptiles (from 200 million years ago), clothing, reproduction of
San paintings and 1860 photographs
3. The Old Residency
- Parsonage Street
- houses sporting rifles
4. Urquhart House
- Market Square
- houses antique furniture
- peach-pip kitchen floor
- genealogical research centre
- The Drosdty Hotel
built in 1806
in Church Street
once the home and offices of the Landrost
- Graaff-Reinet Pharmacy
- a Victorian chemist shop but still in use today
- Jan Rupert Centre
- converted church now a spinning and weaving centre using Graaff-Reinet wool
- Hester Rupert Art Museum
- Church Street
- converted church now art museum
- houses contemporary work of more than 100 South African artists
- Dutch Reformed Church
- built in 1886 |
