Hugh Exton Photographic Museum

Limpopo


Set in a restored 19th-century church, this museum covers Polokwane’s first half-century and the second Anglo-Boer War through the work of the prolific photographer Hugh Exton (1864–1955), who left behind 23,000 glass negatives.


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