Museum · Company's Garden
Iziko South African Museum
25 Queen Victoria Street, Company's Garden, Cape Town 8001
On the web
Venue website (opens in a new tab)South Africa's oldest museum, at the top of the Company's Garden, devoted to natural history and the region's human past. Visitors come for the whale skeletons of the Whale Well, Karoo fossils, San rock art and the Lydenburg Heads; the planetarium sits next door.
Permanent exhibitions
- The Whale Well: suspended whale skeletons and sea mammals
- Karoo fossils and the age of early reptiles
- San rock art and southern African archaeology
- The Lydenburg Heads
- The Sea and Us: marine life of the southern African coast
Coming up
No dates announced yet.