Ancestor Museum [South Africa * Africa

The Memorial Hall of Ancestors is located on a hill at the southern entrance of Pretoria, South Africa. Every 365 days a year, a large number of tourists come to visit it every day. The Memorial Hall of the Ancestors is the largest memorial hall in South Africa (Gao forty-one Meters), and it is also one thousand nine hundred and ninety-four It is the best proof that South Africa's political arena has conscientiously followed the national reconstruction and development plan. Memorial Hall of Ancestors one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine Since its establishment in two thousand and six In, he was awarded the title of the best museum in Africa. But on the day we went there, only a few tourists took photos like an empty museum.

This building is also known as the Waterlux Monument. The whole building is grand and stable, with a very thick sculptural sense. Above the building is a large dome with a hole through which sunlight can come in twelve month sixteen day twelve The sunlight from the point (that is, the day of the Battle of the West River in the Boer War) directly shines on the tombstone set at the bottom of the building, and the sunlight shining in symbolizes God's blessing to the Watlux people.

At the four corners of the whole building, there are four figure sculptures integrated with the whole building. They represent the four leaders of Waterlux and are all carved from gray granite. There is a group of bronze sculptures in front of the main building —— Mother and Son is mainly reflected in the extremely important and unique role played by women and children in this war, because women showed great determination to preserve and develop culture and Christianity throughout the war.

There is a huge African buffalo head carved right in front of the outside of the building. Since buffalo is considered to be the most dangerous wild animal in Africa, the head of the buffalo protects the monument from outsiders. The surrounding walls are carved with war era truck graphics, which symbolizes the protection of the monument. This blog post mainly reflects the appearance of the museum. 　

At the ticket office at the gate, there were no tourists. It is said that this museum is actually a memorial to the colonists, and South African blacks do not come here. But most of the managers here are black. How can we say, for the sake of jobs?

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