Our extensive video collection includes items on:
Anglo-Zulu War (1879); the Anglo - Boer Wars: 1880 - 81 and 1899 - 1902; World Wars : 1914 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945; Korean War 1950 - 1953; Arab Israeli War 1967; Vietnam War 1954 - 1975; and a number of specialist items such as the development of aircraft; armoured fighting vehicles; edged weapons; small arms; artillery and a number of biographies.
These videos are also shown free of charge on a rotating basis over weekends in our mini-auditorium.
GUIDED TOURS
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Tours of the Museum are available during the week between 09.00 and15.00. Special tours can be arranged to cover a specific topic. |
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These can be especially designed to cover any period of history for which the Museum has exhibits. |
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General tours are also provided which will provide members with a tour highlighting exhibits of particular interest. |
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All exhibits are well labelled with relevant information. |
SCHOOL PROGRAMMES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
GRADE 5
Nature of tribal warfare and dynamics of conflict
Hunter-gatherer groups
Cattle herding
Consequences of warfare
Land use
GRADE 6
Science and technology from 14th century onwards
Weapons and military organisation
Muzzle-loading firearms
Military revolution and its impact on voyages of discovery
Also impact on contacts during voyages and structures (why did they build forts?)
Change in Indian Ocean trade patterns
GRADE 7
Cape Frontier Wars
American frontier (weapons technology
American War of Independence
GRADE 8
Anglo Zulu War
Sekukune (Pedi) conflicts
Gun War
Technological change, how it impacted on the above conflicts
South African War, impact of the war
First World War
19th century military technology change
Land warfare
Naval warfare
The aeroplane
Increasing literacy
Mass production weapons and sewing machines, the logistics of war
Transportation (Railways, internal combustion engine)
Trench warfare (artillery and the machine gun)
Development of trench warfare (applying technology to war gas, the tank)
Mass armies maxamising military strength, changing the roles of women and impact of the death toll of the war
The First World War and South Africa
Rebellion
German South West Africa
Imperial Service Units
Auxiliary Transport Companies
East Africa
Palestine
France
Sense of the wider world
Unsolved problems prior to the war
1922 Strike
GRADE 9
Consequences of military defeat on militaristic society
Reaction to Bolshevik totalitarianism
German nationalism
Cultural components
Radio
Change in South Africa as a result of the Second World War
Industrialisation
Clash of nationalisms
Weapons of the armed struggle
Nuclear Age
War in the Pacific and the Asian Holocaust
Arms race
Korea
Vietnam and Malaya
Use of surrogates in the Middle East
Cold War (Nato and Warsaw Pact)
Xenophobia and genocide
Cultures and societies (universal military service, simple to use weapons)
Balkans, Checnya, Afghanistan
India and Pakistan
Myanmar
East Timor and Sri Lanka
SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS AND SPECIALISED PROGRAMMES
