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District Six Museum
District Six Museum preserves memories of the neighbourhood’s forced removals. A floor map and residents’ testimony make apartheid displacement legible through local lives and places.
Why go
The museum preserves community memory of the forced removals from District Six. Its floor map and residents’ testimony give the history of apartheid displacement a local, personal scale. The individual accounts prevent the removals from becoming an abstract date or policy, anchoring them in a Cape Town community.
What to look for
District Six floor map
Residents’ accounts of forced removals
Useful to know
Read the floor map and residents’ testimony with care.
Use the floor map to locate the community described in residents’ testimony.
Your next visit
Estimated · Declared scenario and planning estimates; no live opening, weather, queue or booking service.
Outdoor visit · 45–90 min
World planning estimate; admission, opening, visit duration and access need checking.
