{"id":170305,"date":"2024-06-26T12:39:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T10:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/heritage-highlights-4-paul-roux-private-museum\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T07:58:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T05:58:44","slug":"heritage-highlights-4-paul-roux-private-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/heritage-highlights-4-paul-roux-private-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage highlights 4 \u2013 Paul Roux Private Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alana Bailey<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the series Heritage highlights<\/em> AfriForum sheds light on heritage sites in the country where communities step in themselves to preserve our unique cultural and historical legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the new heritage gems is the Paul Roux Private Museum. Renee Wolfaardt, one of the museum\u2019s committee members, tells us more about its origins and what visitors can look forward to when they visit the museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alana:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you very much for your participation in Heritage highlights<\/em>, Renee. Please tell us more about the history of the museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renee:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you very much for the opportunity to introduce you to Paul Roux Private Museum. We appreciate it. The museum was opened on 1 April 2022 after the current committee members had realised that we have to preserve the town\u2019s history and pass it on to posterity. After the Covid-19 pandemic, the committee also became aware that there was a need among community members to have a meeting place, as the town\u2019s Smit Hall had been sold during the pandemic, and we no longer had such a spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alana:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Where is the museum?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renee:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 Its address is 31 Voortrekker Street in Paul Roux. We also erected a sign to help visitors find the museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alana:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To whom does it belong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renee:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Mrs Yvette Jensen kindly made one of her sandstone buildings available for use as a museum and it is managed by a committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alana:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> What have you done to make it more attractive for visitors?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renee:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 We usually have a museum day once a month with stalls, speakers and demonstrations. Some of the activities we have offered in the past at our museum days include demonstrations of how to make butter and bake bread in an outdoor oven; Vicky Heunis came to talk to us about prisoner of war art dating from the Anglo-Boer War, JP Lees told us more about snakes and Dr Gideon Groenewald about the Dinosaur Age in Paul Roux. We have a kapkarretjiedag (English: tilt\/hooded car day<\/em>) day every year and have also had classic car days. Furthermore, we held Boeresport days for the children and even staged a comedy about Paul Roux\u2019s history. The residents tried line dancing, crowned a Mr and Mrs Museum and we celebrate spring days, as well as movie nights where we watch movies under the stars.<\/p>\n\n\n