District Six Museum

District Six Museum, housed in a former Methodist church in central Cape Town, was founded in 1994 to keep alive the memory of District Six, a multilingual, working-class neighbourhood shattered after it was declared a whites-only area in 1966. Between 1968–82 more than 60,000 residents were forcibly removed and their streets erased; their names, photographs, and hand-drawn maps reclaim that lost geography. The museum matters as a civic space of mourning, testimony, and ongoing claims for justice and return.