A very informative account of the terrible happenings in district 6 during apartheid,lots of written accounts by the people that were removed from here,sad .
It depends how many questions people in the group have, but generally it's around one hour.
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A very informative account of the terrible happenings in district 6 during apartheid,lots of written accounts by the people that were removed from here,sad .
Very well put together exhibition of an awful period in SA history. Some great memorabilia and really brings to life the terrible suffering of the people who lived in that area during the horrible apartheid years.
I was fooled by the District Six Museum's size: It looks quite tiny for a museum, but it is packed to the brim with information; you can easily spend hours here, which makes the R30 entrance fee (for adults) quite worth it. I visited the...More
The price is R40 to visit but worth it, learning about the history of District 6 was great to lean, not to far from central
This museum helped us understand the plight of the Cape Town peoples. The floor of the museum is a map of the district with the names of the people, written in their own had, where they used to live.
We found the museum fascinating and graphically informative. We listened to a former resident of District Six talk about what happened and how it affected people. It's a very disturbing part of South Africa's history. Worth the visit.
The museum is a well-done examination of how apartheid ripped Cape Town apart. The exhibition when we visited was collecting the stories of residents whose lives were upended when they were kicked out and shunted into the townships; it was very helpful to hear their...More
We were staying up the road from this museum so thought it was worth a look. The stories were all very sad, unfortunately the layout of the museum often made it difficult to follow
The history this museum is telling is important and interesting, but as a tourist not familiar with the history of district six it was rather confusing. We found a poster with a resumé of the history in a corner, after we had read us through...More
Loved this museum and the variety of material they had. Only problem was navigating the timeline of events; we did the self guided pass, but on this one maybe pay the extra 10 rand for the guided tour
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