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District Six Museum
Methodist Church, 25A Albertus St, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa Phone: +27 21 466 7200About
District Six Museum is a museum in the former inner-city residential area District Six in Cape Town, South Africa.
District Six Foundation was founded in 1989 and the museum in 1994, as a memorial to the forced movement of 60,000 inhabitants of various races in District Six during Apartheid in South Africa at the seventies of the 20th Century. The floor of the museum is covered with a big map of the district with hand written notes of former inhabitants, which indicate where their houses were located then. A well-known former resident is jazz musician Abdullah Ibrahim, better known under his artist name Dollard Brand. Other pieces in the museum are old traffic signs, presentations of moments of history, lives of families, historical declarations and the demolition.
