Located in one of South Africa's oldest churches, a Dutch Reformed Mission church consecrated in 1821, this museum hosts an art collection of work by more than 100 South African artists from the 1950s and '60s, including Irma Stern and Alexis Preller.
Hester Rupert Art Museum
Eastern Cape
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