Museums in South Africa

By theme

How South Africa’s museums split across the six broad themes. Museums catalogued simply as “a museum”, with no narrower type recorded, fall under General.

A sample of museums

A selection of 60 of South Africa’s 117 museums, alphabetically. Open the map to explore them all by location.

!Khwa ttu · 7 Castle Hill · Albany Museum · Amathole Museum · Amazwi South African Museum of Literature · Anglo-Boer War Museum · Apartheid Museum · Arend Dieperink museum · Auchterlonie Museum · Barkly West Museum · Bartolomeu Dias Museum Complex · Belhaven House · Bellville’s Historical Clay and Stone Quarry and the Adjacent Jail · Bo-Kaap museum · Caledon Museum · Cape Medical Museum · Cape Town Holocaust Centre · Carnarvon Museum · Ceres Transport Riders’ Museum · Chavonnes Battery · Comrades House · CP Nel Museum · Dingaan's spring · District Six Museum · Ditsong Museums of South Africa · Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History · Ditsong National Museum of Natural History · Drostdy Museum · Duggan-Cronin Gallery · East London Museum · Edoardo Villa Museum · Fietas Museum · Fort Amiel Museum · Franschhoek Motor Museum · Franschhoek Wine Tram · Freedom Park · Gallery Mau Mau · Gallery MOMO · Gately House Museum · Great Fish River Museum · Groote Schuur · Heart of Cape Town Museum · Hector Pieterson Museum · Hester Rupert Art Museum · Hout Bay Museum · Huguenot Memorial Museum · Irma Stern Museum · Iziko Museums of South Africa · Iziko South African Maritime Centre · Iziko South African Museum · James Hall Transport Museum · Johannesburg Art Gallery · Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre · Koopmans-de Wet House · KwaZulu-Natal Museum · Letaba Elephant Hall · Luthuli Museum · Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum · Magersfontein · Mapungubwe Museum