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Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum

Port Elizabeth


The museum housed in two handsome buildings at the entrance to St George’s Park has a small gallery of paintings and sculpture by contemporary South African artists, some older British and Eastern Cape works, plus temporary exhibitions.


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