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Pretoria Art Museum

Pretoria


Specialising in South African art from most of the country’s history, this good gallery contains works by all the big local hitters, from Jacob Hendrik Pierneef and Irma Stern to William Kentridge and Conrad Botes. It also features regularly changing exhibitions.


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