This early nineteenth-century Georgian town house is situated in the historic Company Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa. Highlights include a furnished dining room, drawing room and a study. Georgian furniture, Chinese and English porcelain as well as English silver and kitchenware are displayed.

39 Orange Sreet
Gardens, 8001
Cape Town

PO Box 645
Cape Town, 8000

Tel: +27 21 424 9381
Fax: +27 21 461 9592

More information is available on this website.

Cnr Darling & Castle Street
Cape Town, 8001

PO Box 1
Cape Town, 8000

e-mail: casteel@cis.co.za
Tel: +27 21 469 1249
Fax: +27 21 469 1089

Rust -en- Vrede
10 Wellington Road
Durbanville, 7550

PO Box 437
Durbanville, 7551

In 1804 the District of Tulbagh was established and the Drostdy, designed by renowned architect Louis Michael Thibault, was officially opened towards the end of 1806, in 1822 the seat of the landdrost moved to Worcester and the Drostdy passed into private ownership.

Tel & Fax: +27 23 230 0203

District Six was named the Sixth Municipal District of Cape Town in 1867. Originally established as a mixed community of freed slaves, merchants, artisans, labourers and immigrants, District Six was a vibrant centre with close links to the city and the port. By the beginning of the twentieth century, however, the history of removals and marginalisation had begun.

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Central Methodist Mission Church
25A Buitenkant Street
Cape Town, 8001

PO Box 10178
Caledon Square, 7905

e-mail: info@districtsix.co.za
Tel & Fax: +27 21 461 8745

59 Central Circle
Fish Hoek, 7975

PO Box 22483
Fish Hoek, 7974

Groot Constantia is one of the oldest wine estates in South Africa. The manor house is a magnificent example of Cape Dutch architecture and the wine museum pediment is one of the sculptor Anton Anreith's masterpieces.

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Simon van der Stel turned this vast region into rich farmland, planted some eight thousand trees and designed and built the stateliest of the Cape's historic mansions, Groot Constantia (named after his wife, Constance) in 1685, where he lived until his death in 1712.

Groot Constantia Road - Off Constantia Rd
Constantia, 7800

Private Bag - Groot Constantia
Constantia, 7848

e-mail: hbrumfrie@sachm.org.za
Tel: +27 21 794 5067
Fax: +27 21 794 7697

Main Road
Muizenberg, 7945

PO Box 158
Muizenberg, 7950

4 Andrews Road
Hout Bay, 7800

PO Box 26224
Hout Bay, 7872

Irma Stern is considered one of the most important of the pioneer artists in South Africa and one of the country's major painters.

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Tel: +27 21 685 5686
Fax: +27 21 686 7550

Boundary Road
Newlands, 7700

PO Box 157
Newlands, 7725

Dating from the early eighteenth century, this museum is furnished as a lived-in house of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It has a superb collection of Cape furniture, Chinese and Japanese ceramics, Dutch Delft, paintings, glass and silverware. The facade is attributed to the architect Louis Thibalt and sculptor Anton Anreith. The house has interior decorative wall paintings and one of the country's oldest vines in the small courtyard.

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35 Strand Street
Cape Town, 8001

PO Box 645
Cape Town, 8000

Tel: +27 21 424 2473
Fax: +27 21 461 9592

Old Community Hall
Vulindlela Street
Lwandle, 7143

Hazendal Estate
Bottelary Road ( M 23 )
Kuils River, 7580

PO Box 336
Stellenbosch, 7599

e-mail: info@hazendal.co.za
Tel: +27 21 903 5112
Fax: +27 21 903 0057

Situated in the hub of Cape Town on Greenmarket Square, this collection is housed in the former City Hall (the Old Town House) built in 1755 in Cape Rococo style. Donated by Sir Max Michaelis in 1914, it consists of a world-renowned selection of Nederlandish art from the seventeenth-century Golden Age. There are works by Frans Hals, Jan Steen, Jacob Ruisdal, Anthony van Dyck and numerous others.

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e-mail: hfransen@iziko.org.za
Tel: +27 21 424 6367
Fax: +27 21 461 9592

This museum was presented to the South African National Gallery by Count Natale Labia in 1985 in memory of his parents, Prince Natale Labia (1877-1936) and Princess Ida Louise Labia (1879-1961), the daughter of Sir Joseph Robinson.

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e-mail: nlm@gem.co.za
Tel: +27 21 788 4106
Fax: +27 21 788 3908

The theme of Paarl Museum is the history of Paarl. Our museum allows an in-depth look at the town’s rich and varied cultural heritage. This starts with early man, Homo erectus, through the later indigenous Khoisan populations and deals with the changes brought about by European colonisation, including slavery.

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When Lambertus Fick built his gracious old H-shaped homestead in 1780, the "Wagon road to the Cape" passed his front door. This was to become the Dorp Street of Stellenbosch.

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Tel: +27 21 886 4340
Fax: +27 21 887 1645

246 Main Road
Muizenberg, 7945

PO Box 158
Muizenberg, 7950

Robben Island
7400

PO Box 51806
Waterfront, 8002

http://www.robben-island.org.za/
e-mail: esther@robben-island.org.za
e-mail: rabia@robben-island.org.za
Tel: +27 21 409 5100
Fax: +27 21 411 1934

The Education Department
Robben Island Museum
Robben Island, 7400

PO Box 51806
Waterfront, 8002

At Rust en Vreugd, you will find a selection of the world renowned William Fehr Collection: Pictorial Africana of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. These watercolours, etchings and engravings depict an array of historical events, people and buildings as well as important maritime views of the early Cape.

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78 Buitenkant Street
Cape Town, 8001

PO Box 12606
Mill Street, 8001

e-mail: wfehr@iafrica.com
Tel: +27 21 461 9620

The Residency
Court Road
Simons Town, 7975

PO Box 56
Simons Town, 7995

The Slave Lodge is housed in one of the oldest buildings in Cape Town. The original building - built in 1679 - served as a lodge for the slaves of the Dutch East India Company. It was a single storey building with a courtyard, and also housed criminals and the emotionally disturbed.

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49 Adderley Street
Cape Town, 8001

PO Box 645
Cape Town, 8000

Air Force Base Ysterplaat
Piet Grobler Street
Ysterplaat, 7405

PO Box 100580
Ysterplaat, 7425

e-mail: saafmuseum@alternet.co.za
Tel: +27 21 508 6576

49 Adderley Street
Cape Town, 8001

PO Box 645
Cape Town, 8000

Hout Bay Harbour
Hout Bay, 7800

PO Box 4239
Cape Town, 8000

The South African Jewish Museum explores the social, intellectual and cultural contributions made by South Africa's Jewish community. Situated in the "Museum Mile" district of central Cape Town, it offers visitors a truly unique experience with its bold architectural design, multi-media displays and engaging accounts of Jewish discourse.

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The SA Maritime Museum is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation of South Africa's Maritime Heritage.

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Queen Victoria Street
Cape Town, 8001

PO Box 61
Cape Town, 8000

e-mail: jsilberman@iziko.org.za
Tel: +27 21 424 3330

South Africa's premier art museum houses outstanding collections of South African, African, British, French, Dutch and Flemish art. Selections from the Permanent Collection change regularly to enable the museum to have a full programme of temporary exhibitions of paintings, works on paper, photography, sculpture, beadwork, textiles and architecture. They provide insight into the extraordinary range of aesthetic production in this country, the African continent and further afield.

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Government Ave
Gardens, 8001

PO Box 2420
Cape Town, 8000

e-mail: ffebruary@iziko.org.za
Tel: +27 21 465 1628
Fax: +27 21 465 1607

Near Simons Town Museum
Court Road
West Dockyard
Simons Town, 7975

Private Bag X1
Simons Town, 7995

37 Ryneveld Street
Stellenbosch, 7600

Private Bag X5048
Stellenbosch, 7599

University Museum - University of Stellenbosch

(Sasol Art Museum)

52 Ryneveld Street
Stellenbosch, 7600

Private Bag X1
Stellenbosch, 7602

Cnr Dorp and Bird Street
Sellenbosch, 7600

Private Bag X1
Stellenbosch, 7602

e-mail: usmuseum@maties.sun.ac.za
Tel: +27 21 808 3524
Fax: +27 21 808 3669

http://www.cape-town.info/cape-town-attractions/table-mountain/

When mining operations ceased in 1995, the South African Museum together with SAMANCOR, recognised the potential for developing the West Coast Fossil Park. Consequently a 14 ha fossil rich area within the mine property was declared a National Monument in 1996.

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Langebaanweg R45
between Vredenburg & Hopefield

PO Box 42
Langebaan Road, 7375

Tel: +27 22 766 1606
Mobile: +27 83 290 7116
Fax: +27 022 766 1765

Fine examples of paintings and decorative arts, of special relevance to the Cape, can be found in the William Fehr Collection displayed in the Castle, South Africa's earliest extant building. Waiting to be discovered is a wealth of historical information concerning the peoples and landscapes of early colonial South Africa. The William Fehr Collection is a unique and important public collection of artefacts of this period.

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Castle of Good Hope
Buitenkant Street
Cape Town, 8001

PO Box 1
Cape Town, 8000

e-mail: lmeltzer@iziko.org.za
Tel: +27 21 462 3751
Fax: +27 21 462 3750