Preserving unique collections
NELM houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of resources relating to South African literature in English. In addition, the museum collects works from Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland. The collections include authors’ manuscripts, printers’ proofs, diaries, correspondence, publishers’ archives, photographs, posters, play-scripts, theatre programmes and over 20 000 published works. All forms of literature are represented: poems, short stories, novels, plays, autobiographies, travel writing and children’s literature.
NELM also acquires historical artefacts which add to the overall understanding of its literary collections as well as printing artefacts for the Eastern Star Gallery and items specifically relating to Schreiner and domestic life for Schreiner House.
Secondary resources include reference and critical works, journals and journal articles, and press clippings.
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