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The Port Elizabeth Museum, Humewood, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
The Museum blends cultural with natural history, is the third oldest in South Africa and is the parent unit of Bayworld.

Housed in a large, three-storey building, the lower floor of the Port Elizabeth Museum contains the library, administration offices, storerooms and workshops. The ground and first floors contain the Dinosaur, Marine, Bird, Maritime History, Costume and Local History Halls, a Curiosity Corner, as well as a Xhosa Beadwork display. Other diverse exhibits in the fields of natural science, archaeology and geology are also regularly on display in the Museum.

Particularly noteworthy exhibits are the 15m skeleton of the last Southern right whale harpooned in Nelson Mandela Bay; a life-sized reconstruction of the giant local prehistoric dinosaur known as Algoasaurus; a replica of the Dias Cross; and a 5m bronze cannon dated 1640, recovered from a Portuguese galleon wrecked near Port Elizabeth.

The Museum is part of the Bayworld Complex situated in the popular beach front area in Humewood.