The modest single-storey house where the Boer president Paul Kruger lived from 1883 until he fled into European exile in 1900, a short walk from Church Square. Kruger was a man who famously refused to live in the presidential palace the Transvaal government built for him, preferring his own unpretentious home. Inside you can see his desks, pipes, the armchair he sat in for most of his official portraits, and the Vierkleur republican flag that flew over Pretoria on the day he left for Europe, never to return. In the back garden his state coach and his private railway carriage (built in the Netherlands) are on display. The Dutch Reformed Church where he worshipped and preached stands directly opposite.
Kruger House Museum
Kruger's modest home; his railway carriage in the garden
| Address | 60 WF Nkomo Street, Pretoria Central |
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A story
Among the exhibits is the knife with which Kruger amputated his own thumb after a shooting accident in 1842 — a detail that tends to stay with visitors.