The Swakopmund City Museum was founded in 1951 as a private collection of Dr Alfons Weber. The building that houses the museum today has an interesting history. The former customs building was shelled by a German warship on 24 September 1914 and was rebuilt from the ruins only forty years later and made available to the museum. The museum's exhibitions include panoramas of the desert and seabed, a collection of semi-precious stones, a rich collection on the history of Swakopmund and an exhibition on the world's largest open-pit uranium mine, Ressing.
