Pretoria Art Museum

The Pretoria Art Museum was established to house the City Council of Pretoria's Art Collection, built up since the 1930s. The collection consisted mainly of 17th-century work of the "North Dutch school. South African works included pieces by Henk Pierneef, Pieter Wenning, Frans Oeder, Anton van Wouw and Irma Stern.

More recently there was greater emphasis on contemporary South African art and building a more representative historical collection also traditional arts and new-media. The South African collection now includes work by Gerard Sekoto and Judith Mason.