Duggan-Cronin Gallery

The Duggan-Cronin Gallery in Kimberley displays over 8,000 photographs of the Northern Cape region taken by Alfred Duggan-Cronin over a period of 20 years since 1897. These photographs illustrate much of the traditional heritage of the region, and showcase its history superbly in a manner with which no other medium could have achieved.nnThe gallery was constructed in 1889 by JB Currey, manager of The London and South African Exploration Company, and was initially called “The Lodge”. It was consequently purchased by De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd who donated it to the Kimberley City Council on the condition that it displays the Duggan-Cronin photographs.