Stellenbosch University Museum
Two minutes up Ryneveld Street from the Village Museum, and almost nobody walks the extra block. The university’s museum holds more than six thousand pieces of traditional African art — masks, sculpture and textiles from across the continent — which makes it one of the largest collections of its kind in the country, and it […]
Stellenbosch Village Museum
Most house museums show you one moment. The Village Museum shows you four, in four adjoining houses, and the interest is in what changes between them. Schreuderhuis, the earliest, is a small early-eighteenth-century dwelling with a beaten floor. By the last of the four the rooms have grown, the furniture has become formal and the […]
Rupert Museum
The Rupert Museum is the most serious art on offer in Stellenbosch and it costs nothing to walk into, which is an unusual combination anywhere. The collection is private in origin, built by Anton and Huberte Rupert from the 1940s, and it reads as one household’s taste rather than a survey: Irma Stern, Maggie Laubser […]
Koopmans-de Wet House
Koopmans-de Wet House stands at 35 Strand Street, a two storey townhouse with four fluted pilasters across its front, pressed on every side by the taller buildings of the modern city. It is a museum, and it is currently closed. Iziko Museums began conservation work here in 2025, the furniture and objects have been taken […]
Old Town House
Completed in 1755, the Old Town House served as Cape Town’s first town hall for almost a century before civic administration moved elsewhere. The building later became home to the Michaelis Collection after Sir Max Michaelis donated his internationally important collection of Dutch Golden Age paintings to the people of South Africa in 1914. Today […]
Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre
Opened in 1999 as the first Holocaust centre in Africa, the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre was established to educate visitors about the Holocaust while promoting respect for human rights and diversity. Its mission extends beyond preserving history by encouraging dialogue about prejudice, racism and the responsibilities of individuals in building more inclusive societies. […]
South African Jewish Museum
Opened by Nelson Mandela in December 2000, the South African Jewish Museum was created to preserve and share the story of Jewish life in South Africa. Built as an extension of the historic Old Shul, the museum combines contemporary architecture with one of the country’s most significant religious heritage sites. The galleries follow the journey […]
Bo-Kaap Museum
Established in 1978, the Bo-Kaap Museum occupies a house dating back to the 1760s and was restored to illustrate the lifestyle of a prosperous nineteenth-century Cape Muslim family. Rather than focusing only on objects behind glass, the museum recreates a lived-in home with period furnishings, household items and displays that place visitors inside the social […]
Zeitz MOCAA
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa is the world’s largest museum dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. Set inside Cape Town’s transformed historic Grain Silo at the V&A Waterfront, it brings ambitious exhibitions together with one of the city’s most remarkable architectural spaces. Across multiple gallery floors, rotating exhibitions feature established and […]
Rust en Vreugd
Rust en Vreugd is one of Cape Town’s finest surviving Cape Dutch townhouses and an intimate museum within the Iziko Museums of South Africa. Built around 1777–1778 for Willem Cornelis Boers, the Dutch East India Company’s Fiscal at the Cape, the restored building stands on what was then the town’s outer edge. The museum houses […]