Museums in Cape Town

This wonderfully designed District Six Museum commemorates and educates the visitors about the people, culture and history of district six, which also forms an essential chapter on history of the capital. A site where the locals were forced to move to during Apartheid times, the museum displays the conditions and the major events that led to the discrimination.

The Iziko Museum of South Africa is a national museum located in the Company’s Garden in Cape Town. Its collections date back to thousands of years and include African archeology, paleontology and zoological artefacts. It has four levels and the exhibits vary from fossils, rock art, meteorites, marine animals and more.

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art is the largest contemporary art museum in Africa. Located at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, it showcases contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora, in the world. Apart from its exhibits, the architecture of the museum is what attracts both tourists and locals.

The Norval Foundation is a contemporary art museum and centre located in Steenberg, on the slopes of the Table Mountain. It exhibits 20th and 21st-century art by African artists. The building itself is spectacular. Along with the art gallery, it also features a library, a sculpture garden, an amphitheatre children’s playground, a picnic area and a restaurant.