Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.	Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon		Carnegie Library - now Police Museum Muizenberg, Western Cape Norris Tynwald COWIN: Architect John LYON: Architect

Date: 1910 Type: Library Status: Extant Street: 186 Main Road   Click to view map Coordinates: 34°6'38.5" S 18°28'1.1" E

Money donated by the Carnegie Library Foundation $7,800. When the railway line reached Muizenberg in December 1882 and soon thereafter extended to Kalk Bay, travelling for holiday makers to the pleasant Muizenberg Beach and warmer waters of False Bay became much easier and relatively inexpensive because of the Cape Government Railways’ offering of ‘picnic special’ trips. The Muizenberg Carnegie Library in Main Road between the bungalow ‘the Fort’ (now Casa Labia) and the Post Office was designed by architects N. T. (Norris) Cowin and John Lyon and the foundation stone laid in January 1909 by Mayor A. T. Rutter. The library was officially opened on 10 April 1910 by the Honourable (later Sir) Frederick de Waal. Originally, the white-columned balcony was open to the elements, but later fronted with glass windows to provide additional internal space. Together with the adjacent Post Office building the complex now serves as a Police museum. (SJ de Klerk for The Heritage Portal, Friday, September 24, 2021) Books and articles that reference Carnegie Library - now Police Museum Fransen, Hans. 2004. The old buildings of the Cape. A survey of extant architecture from before c1910 in the area of Cape Town - Calvinia - Colesberg - Uitenhage. Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers. pg 155c