The museum houses an incredible collection of stories and personal artifacts of District Six residents. It is curated in a way that captures the spirit of resilience in face of unimaginable injustice and oppression. Many of the historians and guides are personally connected to the...More

To understand much of the recent history of South Africa this is a great pace to visit. The exhibits require some reading to understand fully and I learnt a lot.

A very informative account of the terrible happenings in district 6 during apartheid,lots of written accounts by the people that were removed from here,sad .

Very well put together exhibition of an awful period in SA history. Some great memorabilia and really brings to life the terrible suffering of the people who lived in that area during the horrible apartheid years.

I was fooled by the District Six Museum's size: It looks quite tiny for a museum, but it is packed to the brim with information; you can easily spend hours here, which makes the R30 entrance fee (for adults) quite worth it. I visited the...More

The price is R40 to visit but worth it, learning about the history of District 6 was great to lean, not to far from central

This museum helped us understand the plight of the Cape Town peoples. The floor of the museum is a map of the district with the names of the people, written in their own had, where they used to live.

We found the museum fascinating and graphically informative. We listened to a former resident of District Six talk about what happened and how it affected people. It's a very disturbing part of South Africa's history. Worth the visit.

The museum is a well-done examination of how apartheid ripped Cape Town apart. The exhibition when we visited was collecting the stories of residents whose lives were upended when they were kicked out and shunted into the townships; it was very helpful to hear their...More

We were staying up the road from this museum so thought it was worth a look. The stories were all very sad, unfortunately the layout of the museum often made it difficult to follow