Milner House

Tourist Attractions and Tours

Visitors to Kimberley generally agree that one night in the city is not nearly enough to savour its rich historical heritage. Kimberley is definitely much more than its premier attraction, the Big Hole.Attractions within 15 minutes’ walk of Milner House:

• Selection of pubs and restaurants
• McGregor Museum
• Duggan-Cronin Gallery
• Halfway House Drive-In Pub
• Honoured Dead Memorial
• Second World War Memorial
• Dunluce, house of John Orr
• 7 Lodge Road, birthplace of Harry Oppenheimer
• Girls’ High School and Alfred Beit House
• William Humphreys Art Gallery
• Rudd House, house of C.D. Rudd, mining magnate
• Sol Plaatje Museum
• Sister Henrietta Stockdale Memorial
• St. Cyprian’s Anglican Cathedral
• Drill Hall
• Christian Brothers’ College (1897)
• Nazareth House (1888)

• Big Hole and Mine Museum
• Memorial to the Pioneers of Aviation
• Alexander McGregor Memorial Museum
• Magersfontein Battlefield and Museum
• Kimberley Club
• Alexanderfontein
• De Beers Head Office
• Africana Library
• Transport (Railway) Museum
• Star of the West, old time pub
• Bultfontein Mine
• Freddie Tait Golf Museum
• Kamfersdam
• De Beers Observation Platform
• Concentration Camp Memorial
• Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavings and San Engravings
• Driekopseiland Stone Age Engravings
• Barkly West Alluvial Diamond Diggings
• Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Information Centre and engravings

• Big Hole and Open Mine Museum: 1½-2 hrs
• McGregor Museum: 1½-2 hrs
• Duggan-Cronin Gallery (Ethnographic Museum): 1-1½ hrs
• Dunluce and Rudd House: 2 hrs
• William Humphreys Art Gallery (the only A-grade art gallery in SA): 1-1½ hrs
• St Cyprians Anglican Cathedral: 1 hr
• St Cyprians Anglican Cathedral and Sister Henrietta Stockdale Chapel (story of nursing on the diamond fields): 2 hrs
• Belgravia Walk (magnificent architecture in Kimberley’s first residential suburb): 2 hrs
• Focusing on Sol Plaatje (founder member and first general secretary of the ANC): 1½-2 hrs
• Magersfontein Battlefield and Museum: 3½ hrs
• Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavings and Canteen Koppie (site of first alluvial diamond diggings in SA): 3½-4 hrs
• Tours to modern alluvial digging (hand and mechanical diggers): weekdays only
• Ghost Trail - Kimberley by night with quite a few ghostly stories! More suitable for groups: approx. 4 hrs
• N12 Battlefields Route: full day
• Archaeological Route - sites of ancient San rock engravings, glacial pavings and early history: half day