Bo-Kaap Museum
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Overview
71 Wale Street, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town Central, Cape Townphone: view phone+27 21 481-3939
fax: view fax+27 21 481-3938
website: http://www.museums.org.za
e-mail: send an e-mail
Description
The Museum was established in 1978 as a satellite of the SA Cultural History Museum. It was furnished as a house that depicts the lifestyle of a nineteenth-century Muslim family.
Today, the museum is in a transformation stage.
The Museum is managed by Iziko Museums, an amalgamation of five national museums that includes the SA Cultural History Museum and its satellites. The museum is being changed into a social history museum that will tell the story of the local community within a national socio-political and cultural context and two new displays with this theme have already been completed.
The George Hallet Photographic Exhibition portrays one man's impression of life in the Bo-Kaap. A second exhibition highlights the social history of the Bo-Kaap and the influence of Apartheid and Apartheid laws such as the Group Areas Act.
Older exhibitions show the material culture of the Muslim community at the Cape.
