Jansenville Museum (Sid Fourie House)
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Jansenville's Museum, better known as Sid Fourie House, stands on Brug (Bridge) Street, the main north-south road through town.

Sid Fourie, a true son of Jansenville, was born in 1896 of an Afrikaans father of Huguenot descent and an English mother.  On leaving school he dug wells and rode transport due to the lack of employment at that time.  In 1913 he clerked for a local firm of attorneys but in 1914 he enlisted in a local unit, the 20th Mounted Rifles and soon afterwards saw action on the Orange River near Upington in the campaign against the rebellion in that area.

In 1918 he bought the Jansenville Chronicle and was editor of it for 45 years.

He served on the town council for 25 years, for 15 of which he was mayor.  His time as mayor saw Jansenville getting electricity, an airfield and thousand of trees.  He also played a major role in the establishment of the SAWAS Hospital (South African Women's Auxiliary Services) which opened its doors in 1952.

Regarded as something of an eccentric, he wrote a number of books, travelled the world extensively, put a number of Jansenville's sons and daughters through university and, finally, bequeathed his house to the town.

The house, which bears his name, is to-day Jansenville's museum and has a surprising variety of interesting collections relating both to the lifestyles of the past and the locality in particular.

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