This was so good and so sad. There were tons of primary sources to read and photographs of the area before, during and after the destruction of District Six. One of the people working in the museum that day experienced the turmoil and resettlement first...More

District Six was a working-class neighborhood, by the 1980s largely "coloured" but with other races, adjacent to downtown Cape Town. The apartheid government decided to raze the neighborhood to the ground and reclassify it as a "white" neighborhood. Only some houses of worship were saved...More

We did a self-tour - while the museum itself isn’t very big - there was a lot of information which I think requires a certain level of guidance to help visitors digest. It was interesting and we learned a lot from the visit but think...More

An emotional visit which walks through the troubled resettlement of populations of people. The museum displays and images evoke strong empathy for a country that has move forward despite its history Please visit.

Yes, the destruction of a huge neighborhood and the displacement of thousands of people is particularly horrific and chocking. But it doesn’t make this museum interesting... the guided tour is one long lament about “everything was better before”. It quickly gets boring...

There is a vast amount of information but tricky to consume as it is not structured very well. Still a great trip to make though

Tells in graphic detail how the coloured people were evicted from their homes in the early seventies and their houses destroyed. Currently the area is subject to lands claims by former residents -tenants and land owners.