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378: 47: 397: 93: 332: 374:) on 1 April 1999 to form the Northern Flagship Institution. The NFI was officially renamed Ditsong Museums of South Africa in April 2010. The Transvaal Museum was renamed Ditsong National Museum of Natural History on the same date. Ditsong is managed by a chief executive officer and a board, which replaced the three separate previous museum boards. 810: 850: 820: 439: 895: 855: 112: 840: 845: 539: 367: 199: 1074: 504: 880: 323:, is on display in the museum. In addition, the Transvaal museum houses extensive collections of mammals, birds, reptiles, and invertebrates. 667: 885: 742: 529: 204: 165: 1053: 610: 473: 418: 497: 767: 564: 209: 870: 597: 377: 710: 17: 962: 729: 642: 521: 513: 490: 355:
was appointed as its first director. For the first two years after it was founded, the museum was located in the
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The Transvaal Museum was amalgamated with the Pretoria-based National Cultural History Museum (also called the
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therapsids (proto-mammals from the Karoo). The most complete skull of an
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Street, between Visagie and Minnaar Streets, opposite the
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National Museum of Natural History (Transvaal Museum)
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National Museum of Cultural History (African Window)
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Transvaal Museum

Pretoria
Gauteng
South Africa
Coordinates
25°45′12″S 28°11′20″E / 25.75325°S 28.18899°E / -25.75325; 28.18899
J. W. B. Gunning
A Re Yeng
http://www.ditsong.org.za/
Ditsong Museums of South Africa
Natural History
Military History
Cultural History
Agricultural History
Pionier Museum
Sammy Marks Museum
Tswaing Meteorite Crater
Kruger Museum
natural history museum
Pretoria
South Africa
Paul Kruger
Pretoria City Hall
South African Republic
Ditsong Museums of South Africa
Plio-Pleistocene
Sterkfontein
Swartkrans
Kromdraai

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