The Living Laager offers visitors a unique cultural experience by providing a glimpse into what a day in the life of the Voortrekkers looked like inside a traditional ox wagon laager.

Traditional filter coffee and milk tart over the fire, potjiekos, hand-churned butter, the casting of rifle bullets and other ironwork, whipping and more!

Here we bring history to life!

Make this experience even more special and book your place to spend the night in one of the ox wagons!

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Here at the Pioneer Yard we have a magnificent farm with Boerperd horses, Shetland ponies, donkeys, dwarf goats, Dorper sheep, and various poultry.

Feel free to bring the kids and come and meet our beautiful farm animals!

We also welcome visiting schools and youth groups regularly here at the Farm Yard. Our little friends are always so excited to learn more about our animals and how to care for them. They also get the opportunity to feed and pet them.

The Pioneer Centre is an interactive discovery center and a treasure trove of valuable additional resources to the current CAPS outcome-based learning themes presented in South African schools.

Original objects, replicas, historical photographs, contemporary visual material and bits of information are used to present educational themes in a creative way for educators and learners.

Here you can also learn how the Voortrekker children made clay oxen, bake bread the pioneer way, or experience how the Voortrekkers of old wrote letters with a traditional quill pen!

The Pioneer Centre also houses a permanent model train exhibition, which was launched on 22 September 2022. This exhibition, developed in collaboration with the Northern Transvaal (NTVL) Model Train Club, creates a new opportunity for the monument to not only celebrate our rich cultural heritage, but in the process inspire the youth of South Africa to do the same.

The Model Train Club was founded in 1949, the same year that the Voortrekker Monument was opened. This club came to settle at the Voortrekkermonument to let their love for model trains and the history of South African railways live on here.

Come and visit this beautiful exhibition!

Click here to see our exciting Pioneer Center activity list for schools and youth groups. For any other inquiries or bookings, please send us an email by clicking on the link below.