This extraordinarily powerful museum has already become the city's leading tourist attraction, an obligatory stop for visitors and residents alike. The Museum, with its large blown-up photographs, metal cages and numerous monitors recording continuous replays of apartheid scenes set in a double volume ceiling, concrete and red brick walls and grey

concrete floor, is next to the Gold Reef City Casino, five kilometres south of the city centre. The Museum occupies approximately 6 000 square metres on a seven-hectare site which consists of natural recreated veld and indigenous bush habitat containing a lake and paths, alongside its stark but stunning building.

The Museum's director, Christopher Till, says: "It is appropriate that the first Apartheid Museum in South Africa should open in Johannesburg, where at the turn of the century there was a convergence of people for a range of different reasons. Black people were displaced from the land through colonial wars and the imposition of poll taxes, and white farmers were displaced through the Anglo Boer War.” A multi-discipliniary team of curators, filmmakers, historians, museologists and designers was assembled to develop the exhibition narrative which sets out by means of large blown-up photographs, artefacts, newspaper

clippings, and some extraordinary film footage, to graphically animate the apartheid story.

Private transfers are provided from your hotel to the Museum and back. Your guide will accompany you on your walk through the various exhibits, or you are welcome to experience the Museum on your own.


TOUR CODE - WAPM
Duration: Vehicle & guide available for a maximum of 3 hours
Availability: Daily – except on Mondays, Christmas Day, New Years Day & Good Friday
Pick-up Time: We recommend between 09:30 and 14:00
Entrance Fees: Included
Special Note: To maximise the time at the museum itself, this tour is recommended only for guests staying at hotels in Fourways, Randburg, Rosebank or Sandton.
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