Caledon Museum, Social history museum in Caledon, South Africa

The Caledon Museum uses two buildings to present its collection, with a Victorian house containing artifacts and a Masonic Lodge displaying historical photographs and furniture from various periods. Together these spaces show the different layers of local heritage through objects and materials.

The Caledon Museum Association was founded on 5 May 1970, and the museum was proclaimed a provincial museum under Museum Ordinance 31 of 1968 on 25 July 1972. It first occupied the house at 11 Krige Street, built by Rev. Theunissen and later used as a maternity home until 1970. The museum bought 11 Constitution Street in 1991 and opened it as a house museum on 2 December 1994.

The space documents community family histories and shows how major historical events shaped local lives. Visitors can discover connections to people whose names and stories are preserved in the collections.

The museum occupies two houses on Constitution Street: the restored 11 Constitution Street house museum and the former Masonic Lodge at 16 Constitution Street, which holds furniture and the Caledon Family Photographs. The decorative ceiling original to the Lodge can still be seen. The kitchen, back passage and pantry were restored with a woodstove installed in the kitchen.

The museum holds a collection of works by Peter Clarke made during his youth in Tesselaarsdal, near Caledon. Mostly small pencil drawings, with some watercolours and other media, they depict local people and places and include studies that show the artist developing his technique.