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	AFFILIATED MUSEUMS
	Beaufort-West Museum Caledon Museum Cape Medical Museum CP Nel Museum Drostdy Museum Genadendal Mission Museum George Museum Groot-Brakrivier Museum Hout Bay Museum Huguenot Memorial Museum Montagu Museum Old Church Folk Museum Old Harbour Museum Paarl Museum SA Fisheries Museum SA Missionary Meeting House Museum Shipwreck Museum Simon's Town Museum Social History Museum Stellenbosch Museum Transport Riders Museum Wellington Museum Wheat Industry Museum Worcester Museum

The Western Cape Museum Service provides support and professional services to 28 affiliated museums in the Western Cape.

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The objective of the Museum Service is to conserve, preserve and promote the heritage of the Western Cape through the affiliated museums

The Museum Service consists of three centralised sections – Management and Support Service, Scientific Service and Technical Service – that provide support and professional services to 28 affiliated museums in the Province. These museums include four provincial museums, nineteen province-aided museums and five local museums, and serve just short of a million visitors every year.

These 28 museums require extensive services from the Museum Service unit, especially for research and new exhibitions to address issues of transformation.

The key focus areas for unit are for leadership and guidance:

• in the management of the Museum Service and related museums
• in the management of collections
• in the production of exhibitions
• in public programmes and relations of related museums.

The Unit also provides support around marketing of related museums.

The different components of the unit provides the following services:

Museum Support Service

• provision of human resources and human resource support
• co-ordination of training
• distribution of subsidies and grants-in-aid
• collective marketing of affiliated museums.

Museum Scientific Service

• development of collections management policies and practices
• research and writing for exhibitions
• support in the development of education programmes.

Museum Technical Service

• support in the development of preventive conservation policies and practices
• interventive conservation
• design and production of new exhibitions.

• Annual Report of the Museum Service 2002/2003
• Western Cape Museum Service Business Plan 2003/2004

There are a range of travelling exhibitions available that can be booked from Museum Services including exhibitions on the Anglo-Boer War, the VOC, Andrew Abraham Stockenström le Fleur, slave history in the Western Cape, HIV/AIDS awareness and building democracy.