District Six Museum

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  • Address
    25A Buitenkant St, City Bowl
  • Phone
    466 7200
  • Website
  • Transport
    train: Main Station

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Lonely Planet review

Your one essential museum visit in Cape Town should be here. As much for the people of the now vanished District Six as it is about them, this is a hugely moving and informative exhibition which repays repeat visits. Note that almost all township tours stop here first to explain the history of the pass laws.

The floor of the main hall is covered with a large-scale map of District Six on which former residents have labelled where their demolished homes and features of their neighbourhood were. Reconstructions of home interiors, photographs, recordings and written testimonials build up an evocative picture of a shattered but not entirely broken community. The staff, practically all displaced residents, each have a heartbreaking story to tell.