page_title: McGregor Museum
section_title: Expansion to the sanatorium
hierarchical_section_title: McGregor Museum / Expansion to the sanatorium
caption_attribution_description: English: Cecil Rhodes posing at the Sanatorium where he resided during the Siege of Kimberley. The building has been fortified to protect it against Boer shelling.
context_page_description: The McGregor Museum in Kimberley, South Africa, originally known as the Alexander McGregor Memorial Museum, is a multidisciplinary museum which serves Kimberley and the Northern Cape, established in 1907.
context_section_description: Outgrowing available space at its buildings in town, the museum's headquarters were moved in 1973 to the former Kimberley Sanatorium (built in 1897), which at one time served also as the Hotel Belgrave (1902–1933) and as the Holy Cross Convent School, Kimberley (1933–1971). The new museum headquarters were officially opened on 22 November 1976. For the duration of the Siege of Kimberley (14 October 1899 – 15 February 1900) during the Anglo-Boer War, Cecil John Rhodes lodged in rooms at what was then the Sanatorium.
caption: Cecil Rhodes posing at the Sanatorium during the Siege of Kimberley
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