- 4 Anglo-Boer War Museum, Monument Rd, ☏ +27 51 447-3447. Museum dedicated to the Anglo-Boer Wars of 1899 to 1902. (updated Nov 2020)
- Choet Visser Rugby Museum, ☏ +27 51 436-4124. By appointment only.
- Fire Station Museum, Erlich Park Fire Station, Church Street, ☏ +27 51 405-8730, braam@civic.mangaung.co.za. By appointment. 17 vintage fire engines, cars, bikes steam engines and even ox wagons.
- National Museum, 36 Aliwal Street, ☏ +27 51 447-9609, ornito@nasmus.co.za. M-F 8AM-5PM, Sa 10AM-5PM, Su noon-5:30PM. Home to the Florisbad skull. R5 entrance fee.
- Oliewenhuis Art Museum, 16 Harry Smith Street, ☏ +27 51 447-9609, oliewen@nasmus.co.za. M-F 8AM-5PM, Sa 10AM-5PM. Outstanding art museum in a beautifully restored Cape-Dutch style house and gardens. Oliewenhuis hosts ever changing temporary displays of contemporary art and photography, whilst upstairs is a more traditional permanent exhibition. There is a very nice cafe in the sculpture garden at the back and is the ideal retreat from the city's sterile shopping malls. Free entrance.
- Presidency Museum, Pres. Brand Street, ☏ +27 51 448-0949. Tu-F 10AM-12:15PM and 1PM-4PM. This former residence of presidents of the Orange Free Stare Republic has been restored to what it would have been at the turn of the century.
- SA Armour Museum (West of town, follow Nelson Mandela (R64) west towards the N1, you'll see a sign), ☏ +27 51 402 1959, armourschool@mweb.co.za. The SA Armour Museum, on the grounds of Tempe Military Base, exhibits various items dealing specifically with military armour. The SA Armour Museum consists of an indoor-, outdoor-, and reference library area. Some of the more interesting exhibits include South African built apartheid era riot control vehicles, and some old Soviet tanks the South African's captured in Angola.
- Queens Fort Military Museum, 116 Church Street, ☏ +27 51 447-5478, naln@majuba.ofs.gov.za. M-F 10AM-12:15PM and 1PM-4PM price=. Exhibitions on the two Boer wars and the apartheid struggle.
