District Six Museum
Museum in Cape Town, South Africa
Function: Museum
Established: 1994
The Museum has expanded its work from its location in the Methodist Church building at 25A Buitenkant Street, into a neighbouring building. Number 15 Buitenkant ...
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Why is the District Six Museum famous?
Currently, the museum serves as a remembrance of the once lively multi-racial area that was forcefully removed during apartheid in the 1960s and 1970s.
How long to spend at District 6 museum?
I believe it is approximately one hour. We did not take a tour and felt it was a museum that you could really guide yourself. It is beneficial to read up on District 6 before you go to the museum.
Why is District 6 so important?
District Six, one of the main municipal districts in the center of Cape Town, housed diverse people from Dutch colonies in Indian, Indonesia and Malaysia. Many Muslims also dwelled in Cape Town, and traveled from Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world.
What happened to District 6 Cape Town?
On 11 February 1966 it was declared a white area under the Group Areas Act of 1950, and by 1982, the life of the community was over. More than 60 000 people were forcibly removed to barren outlying areas aptly known as the Cape Flats, and their houses in District Six were flattened by bulldozers.
District Six Museum is a museum in the former inner-city residential area and, District Six, in Cape Town, South Africa in an old Methodist church.
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One of the best parts of our tour of Cape Town, this down-to-earth museum tells the story of this unique community, erased now and scattered. An important part ...