- Maria Wilman
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Maria Wilman was the first Director of the McGregor Museum in Kimberley, South Africa.[1]
Born in Beaufort West on 29 April 1867, she matriculated at the Good Hope Seminary in Cape Town before going on to complete a natural science tripos in geology, mineralogy and chemistry at Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1888.
On the staff of the South African Museum
Wilman's museum career began when she worked as a volunteer in the Geology Department at the South African Museum in Cape Town.
In 1906 she undertook an important journey up to Kimberley, the Vryburg region and further north, collecting specimens, and amassing data on rock engravings which was the start of a project culminating nearly three decades later in her publication Rock engravings of Griqualand West and Bechuanaland, published in Cambridge.
Director of the McGregor Museum in Kimberley
Wilman was appointed in 1908 as the first Director of the newly founded McGregor Museum in Kimberley.
She retired from the museum in 1953 and went to live in George.
Wilman died in George on 9 November 1957.
References
- ^ Carlstein, Brigit 2007. Miss Maria Wilman: 1867-1957. In Hart, R. (ed) 2007. Chapters from the past: 100 years of the McGregor Museum, 1907-2007. Kimberley: McGregor Museum
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