It is a museum, cultural centre and silkscreen workshop all forming a community development programme – providing all its participants with a place to learn and work since 1975.

No firm steps to initiate such a project, however, were taken until the end of 1975 when the district council indicated that it was prepared to make available the abandoned Isang School building to any private group which was prepared to convert it into some kind of community education center, further it indicated its strong wish that this center should incorporate the district museum.

\With the enthusiastic Bakgatla late King, Kgosi Linchwe II, an ad hoc committee was quickly formed which began to discuss the nature of a possible project and the new opportunity that had been created by the council’s offer.

The site is placed on top of Phuthadikobo Hill with views of the village and the surrounding terrain and has space available for landscaping and future developments.

The significance of this very ambitious undertaking and the thinking that underlay it were described by Isang in 1933 when outlining the position of the tribe as he found it on taking over as regent in 1921: Units that work with each other in the project include Archaeology (heritage Sites), Education (tours), Archive (Archive development), Research (Intangible Cultural Heritage) and Art Gallery (Arts and Crafts).