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Best museums in Cape Town

8 places from 4 Cape Town travel vlogs, most-mentioned first. The play button jumps to that moment in the video.

8 places

  1. District Six Museum

    Museum ยท City Bowl

    Museum and cultural centre telling the story of the 60,000 non-white residents forcibly removed from District Six under apartheid.

  2. Two Oceans Aquarium

    Museum ยท V&A Waterfront

    Aquarium celebrating marine life from both the Atlantic and Indian oceans.

  3. Iziko South African Museum and Planetarium

    Museum ยท City Bowl

    Museum and planetarium covering Africa's natural and human history, from pre-colonial rock art to the giants of the Cape's natural world.

  4. Cape Town Diamond Museum

    Museum ยท V&A Waterfront

    Museum on the history of diamond mining and South Africa's significant role in the global diamond industry.

  5. Bo-Kaap Museum

    Museum ยท Bo-Kaap

    A small museum on the history of the Bo-Kaap, from its days as slave housing to its Cape Malay heritage.

Mentioned once

3 more picks, each from a single vlog, so not ranked.

  1. Iziko South African National Gallery

    Museum ยท City Bowl

    The national art gallery, displaying centuries of creativity a few steps from the South African Museum.

  2. South African Jewish Museum

    Museum ยท City Bowl

    Museum honouring the Jewish community's role in shaping South Africa, housed in a building that fuses contemporary and old-world architecture.

  3. Iziko Slave Lodge

    Museum ยท City Bowl

    Museum in a former slave lodge that remembers Cape Town's history of slavery.