Apartheid Museum
The Apartheid Museum is a museum illustrating apartheid and the 20th-century history of South Africa. The museum, part of the Gold Reef City complex in Johannesburg, was opened in November 2001.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NJR ZA, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gold Reef City and FNB Stadium.
Gold Reef City
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Gold Reef City is an amusement park in Johannesburg, South Africa. Located on an old gold mine which closed in 1971, the park is themed around the gold rush that started in 1886 on the Witwatersrand, and the buildings in the park are designed to mimic this period. Gold Reef City is situated 160 metres northeast of Apartheid Museum.
FNB Stadium
Stadium
First National Bank Stadium or simply FNB Stadium, also known as Soccer City and the Calabash, is an association football and rugby union stadium located in Nasrec, bordering the Soweto area of Johannesburg, South Africa. FNB Stadium is situated 2½ km west of Apartheid Museum.
Nasrec
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Nasrec is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. The name "Nasrec" is an abbreviation for "National Agricultural, Sports and Recreation Events Centre", a 270h multi use exhibition site in former mining region Crown Mines and home of the Rand Show an agricultural, industrial and commercial exhibition held annually". Nasrec is situated 3 km west of Apartheid Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Robertsham and Booysens.
Robertsham
Suburb
Robertsham is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is situated in the city's southern suburbs just south of the CBD. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
Booysens
Suburb
Booysens is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, located around 3.2 km southwest of city hall. Booysens is bordered on the southwest by Robertsham, on the northwest by Framton, on the north by Ophirton, on the east by the Robinson Deep mine, and on the south from east to west by Turffontein, West Turffontein, and Southdale.
Winchester Hills
Suburb
Winchester Hills is an area in Johannesburg, South Africa. Houses for sale in the region often sell for more than R 750,000. Winchester Hills is situated 3½ km south of Apartheid Museum.
Apartheid Museum
- Type: Museum
- Description: Museum on the history of Apartheid in South Africa
- Categories: history museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: City of Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-26.23773° or 26° 14′ 16″ southLongitude
28.0086° or 28° 0′ 31″ eastElevation
1,715 metres (5,627 feet)Open location code
5G5CQ265+WCOpenStreetMap ID
way 122486194OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museum
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Tamil—“Apartheid Museum” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Apartheidsmuseum”
- Armenian: “Ապարտհեյդի թանգարան”
- Basque: “Apartheid museoa”
- Basque: “Apartheid Museum”
- Catalan: “Apartheid Museum”
- Catalan: “Museu de l’Apartheid”
- Chinese: “種族隔離博物館”
- Czech: “Muzeum Apartheidu”
- Dutch: “Apartheid Museum”
- Dutch: “Apartheidsmuseum”
- Estonian: “Apartheidi muuseum”
- French: “musée de l’apartheid”
- French: “Musée de l’apartheid”
- German: “Apartheid Museum”
- Japanese: “アパルトヘイト博物館”
- Portuguese: “Museu do Apartheid”
- Russian: “Музей апартеида”
- Swahili: “Apartheid Museum”
- Swati: “Umnyuziyamu Welubandlululo”
- Tamil: “அப்பர்தாய்ட் அருங்காட்சியகம்”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Apartheid Museum”. Photo: NJR ZA, CC BY-SA 3.0.