The Cape Town Museum is a museum without walls – we exist to gather, share and record the stories of people who live in Cape Town, as well as their ideas and visions for a Cape Town of the future.

 

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The Cape Town Museum is a project of the Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport with the aim to create a collaborative and participatory initiative that explores and presents our City as a holistic cultural landscape and living museum.

 

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Last weekend, the Cape Town Museum and the Cape Town Medical Museum commemorated Heritage Month with a focus on health and traditional medicine. With the medicinal plant garden at the Cape Medical Museum in Greenpoint as a backdrop, visitors learned
If you are in or around Bredasdorp, come visit the Cape Town Museum table at the NAMPO Cape agricultural and rural lifestyle exhibition being held in Bredasdorp from September 11 - 14. The Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport (DCAS)
Today we share with you a submission we received for the Cape Town Museum Mapping project which aims to tell the stories of the people of Cape Town through location pins on a map of the city and surrounding areas. This story is from a German Lancia c
The Cape Town Museum and the DCAS Museum Research and Exhibition Services invite you to a talk by Dr Nadia Kamies about her book “Off-Centre and Out of Focus. Growing Up 'Coloured' in South Africa”. "In her moving reading of family
Join the Cape Town Museum and the DCAS Museum Research and Exhibition Services at the Leeuwenhof Slave Quarters Remembrance Gallery for this Women's Month tour and talk on Wednesday, 14 August. For more information and to RSVP, see the link in our bi
Last Saturday, July 20, the Cape Town Museum and Africa Unite @africaunite.umojawaafrica showcased the artworks of a group of young artists at an event hosted at the SA Sendinggestig Museum. The artworks were submitted as part of a competition orga
Help us populate the Cape Town Map! The Cape Town Digital Map seeks to highlight the stories and memories of the people of Cape Town. This is a project for the people of Cape Town by the people of Cape Town and we are inviting individuals of all ag
The Museum Research and Exhibition Services recently hosted a memory workshop as part of the Cape Town Museum's public programmes. It took place at the Ruyterwacht Senior Centre and was facilitated by Dr Nadia Kamies, historian and author. She brough
The Cape Town Museum has partnered with a local film production, Kasi Untold, to feature four short documentaries on our Cape Town Digital platform. Created by young filmmakers, the series of short films explores the notion of home in contested and c