Research
Research is at the heart of the Museum and occurs in different forms and settings. It is present through a memory methodology that uses mapping, oral history and action research…
The Sabinet African Archives portal currently offers an index to collections within academic institutions of South Africa. We are busy expanding this index. Sabinet also offers a hosting and digitisation solution to online collection holders to make it more discoverable to researchers globally.
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The Resource Centre
A significant percentage of the Museum’s collection exists as documentary evidence of people’s lives in District Six and in the greater Cape Town. It includes newspaper records, original identity cards,…
The Sound Archive
The Sound Archive has generated an extensive institutional archive that holds information on the various memory methodology workshops, conferences and symposia organised by or held in the Museum. Topics are…
The City Hall
The collection includes a 3D model of the City Hall, 3D model of the Nelson Mandela statue, a panorama Tour of the City Hall, maps and photographs, etc
John H Marshall Maritime Research Centre
Images depicting Table Bay from the 17th to 20th century give an idea of the development of the harbour. Exhibitions include the earliest existing model of Table Bay harbour, completed…
Historical archaeology collection
Iziko has as part of its collections an extensive collection of artefacts from several sites in and around Cape Town. Historical archaeological collections presently consist of artefacts and faunal material…
Wendy Ackerman Collection
The Wendy Ackerman collection comprises of seven photos from Temple Israel, in Wynberg, Cape Town. Two of these images depict a young boy in shul, presumably on the occasion of…
Sandak-Lewin Collection
he Sandak-Lewin Collection includes a number of photographs and documents relating to Temple Israel in Cape Town
Rummel Family Collection
The Rummel Family collection contains images of two shtetls in Friederichstadt in Latvia. Also in this collection is an invitation to the opening of Highlands Place – a set of…
Miriam Bloom Collection
The Miriam Bloom Collection comprises a number of photographs of Miriam Bloom as a young women with friends in Cape Town, a small number of images take at Habonim camp…