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Museums and Galleries in Cape Town
Museums and Galleries in Cape Town
Bo-Kaap Museum, 71 Wale Street, Bo-Kaap, ☎ +27 (0)21 481-3939 ( ), . Open 9:30AM to 4:30PM Monday to Saturday. Located in a home dating from the 1760s, the museum offers an insight into the cultural life of the Muslim community of the Bo-Kaap area in Cape Town. R5 entrance fee. �
District Six Museum, 25A Buitenkant St, ☎ +27 (0)21 461-8745 ( ), . District Six is an area near downtown Cape Town which remained multiracial well into the 1960s against all attempts by the government to declare it a "white only" area. Eventually the residents were all evicted and the buildings were bulldozed. The area remains uninhabited. The museum provides information about the area, the eviction, the Group Areas Act, and the people who used to live there. The director of the museum is a former resident. There is a small bookstore with an excellent selection of books on South Africa's history, District Six and apartheid. �
Groot Constantia, Groot Constantia Estate, Constantia, ☎ +27 (0)21 795-5140 ( ), . Open daily 10AM to 5PM. One of the oldest wine estates in South Africa R8 entrance fee. �
Slave Lodge, cnr Adderley and Wale Streets, ☎ +27 (0)21 460-8240 ( ), . open 8:30AM to 4:30PM Monday to Friday and 9AM to 1PM on Sunday. One of the oldest buildings in Cape Town. R7 entrance fee. �
South African Jewish Museum, 88 Hatfield Street, ☎ +27 (0)21 464-1267 ( ), . Open Sunday-Thursday 10AM to 5PM and Friday 10AM to 2PM. Closed Saturday. The Museum about this small community that has made large contributions in South African society and bringing down Apartheid. The museum is about Jews but Non-Jews will find it very interesting and informative and it is one of the best museums in South Africa R35 adults, R15 students. �
South African Maritime Museum, Union Castle Building, V&A Waterfront, ☎ +27 21 465 1546 ( ), . This Museum displays include evidence of the early seafarers round the Cape Of Good Hope. Small craft, locally made and a wide variety of maritime artifacts displays are also offered. �
South African National Gallery, Government Avenue, Gardens, ☎ +27 (0)21 467-4660 ( ), . 10AM to 5PM Tuesday to Sunday. Located in the Gardens area of Cape Town off Government Ave (about a 20 minute walk from downtown). Contains extensive displays of South African art, as well as information on the history of censorship of art during apartheid R10 entrance fee. �
Galleria Gibello, 67 Rose Street, Bo Kaap, ☎ +27 (0)21 422-1144 ( ), . Open 10AM to 5PM Monday to Friday. Situated in the increasingly trendy Bo Kaap, Galleria Gibello offers visitors a brief escape from reality. Galleria Gibello is a photo gallery that is filled with visually captivating moments of life on the African continent. Admission is free. �
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