District Six Museum Cape Town

25A Buitenkant Street, Cape Town , Western Cape, South Africa - Phone: 27 0 21 466 7200
  • Traveler Rating 4.50
    95 reviews 48 travel blogs 34 photos

    Attraction Type:

    History museum, Specialty museum

    Popularity

    14of 98 attractions in Cape Town

TravelPod Member ReviewsDistrict Six Museum Cape Town

  • Great guides

    5

    mozi 0 contribution Bratislava, Slovakia Feb 21, 2012

    The District Six Museum has great guides. I have listened to two of them and both were telling their stories about the Apartheid and it was very interesting and insightful.

    This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.

Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Visited this Attraction District Six Museum Cape Town

  • 1

    District Six

    7 photos

    Dnes sme isli do muzea ktore sa vola District Six Museum. Je to muzeum o casti Kapskeho mesta, ktore sa volalo District Six. Bola to cast mesta, ktora bola blizko centra mesta a postihol ho podobny osud ako podhradie v Bratislave ked sa tam budoval Novy Most.

    60 tisic ludi z Districtu Six bolo odsunutych mimo mesto do Cape Flats, kde je …

  • 2

    Cape Town

    20 photos

    And so began our next adventure... We arrived in Johannesburg very tired after an 8 hour flight and 5 hour time difference, caught the first flight out to Cape Town and then pretty much slept the rest of the day.

    Our first visit in Cape Town was to Robben Island, a very moving experience. Robben Island is a flat barren island that used to …

Related BlogsDistrict Six Museum Cape Town

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    Penultimate blog, Cape town and good hope

    11 photos

    ... to bring a pick-nic and some wine, and you get a free candle. We ticked off a visit to the Cape town fort and to the District six museum, a very emotive museum about the re-location of a city centre district in the 60's where black, coloured and ...

  • 2

    District Six and townships

    ... to some island off the coast of Madagascar rather than Kenya. After a long 8 days at sea I have finally made it to Cape Town, South Africa. It is a dream come true to be here. This is the port city that I have been most looking forward to. I ...

  • 3

    Africa in the Winter is Cold?

    ... white person on the street most of the time. People did look at me, but I never felt uncomfortable at all. I went to the district six museum and also took a trip out to robben island (in 6 meter swells - what a ride THAT was!) where the tour was led ...

  • 4

    Last few days in Cape Town.... :-(

    63 photos

    ... walking targets for getting mugged so her advice was to get out asap so we made a sharp harp exit! We visited the District Six museum in the afternoon which tells the story of black people who were forceably removed from their homes to make way for the ...

  • 5

    GOOOOAAAAALLLL!

    2 photos

    ... and architecture made for some good pictures. Just up the street from the castle, Greg and I made our way back to the District Six Museum. We had both already been, but went back again to enjoy this amazing museum. I could go there once a week and ...

  • 6

    The Long Way Down

    25 photos

    ... museum that gave a fascintaing insight into the apartheid struggle and the demonstrations that took place and District Six museum. This is an area of Cape Town that was reclaimed by the government during apartheid and meant the forced removal of ...

  • 7

    City bowl sightseeing

    ... from the British. We did the official tour and watched the guards fire the ceremonial gun. Next we visited the District Six Museum, this museum is in the area that used to be a multi-racial community but under apartheid the government had decided that ...

  • 8

    Cape Town City Tour

    1 photo

    ... Signal Hill & Lions Head · The oldest Mosque in the Country · Bo-Kaap & the Bo-Kaap Museum · The District Six Museum · Castle of Good Hope · Company's Garden · Stately Houses of Parliament · Cultural History Museum · Exhibits on ...

  • 9

    The end of the road

    47 photos

    ... I also booked a Robben island ticket for the next day, that would go ahead if the weather was better, and visited the District Six museum, about the people who were thrown out of this area of Cape Town when the apartheid government decided they wanted to ...

  • 10

    southern ocean

    ... mountain.  There are penguins nearby, holding their own against humans and dogs.  I went downtown to the Waterfront and the District Six Museum, one day we walked on Table Mountain, and another day I walked all the way to the end of the Cape, ...