The Cullinan Heritage Society announced that their diamond display room and mining museum have reopened after many months of hard work.
The room has pictorials of a timeline of diamonds in SA, the role of the Beefeaters and the Tower of London regarding the British Crown Jewels, a series of photographs from the 50s on the journey mining of a diamond takes from its start to its end in a ring or necklace, and pictures relevant to mining diamonds.
The mining museum was fortunate enough to have been able to copy the replicas of diamonds from all over the world, and the displays of these diamonds as follows: the cutting of a diamond, displays of old and new cuts, two displays of famous world diamonds, a display of famous diamonds mined at Cullinan Diamond Mine, the diamonds mined at Cullinan since Petra Diamond Mining took over, including the rare blue diamonds, and, finally, a display of the most famous diamond in the world, the Cullinan Diamond, as an uncut stone and as cut into its nine primary stones.
There are two displays of the daily production of the mine today and samples of the kimberlite found at the Cullinan Mine. The exhibition, put together with education in mind, is highly recommended for school groups.
The cost of entry is a R5 donation. This entry includes the history room, dedicated to the history of the Cullinan Diamond Mine, the village and its people from its founding in late 1902.
This room also includes many artefacts from over the last century, such as sports trophies dating back to 1905.
The museum is open seven days a week from 8:00 until 15:00.
It is on the same premises as the tour company Cullinan Tourism and History, just off Oak Avenue and opposite the McHardy House Museum.
