Museum · Braamfontein
Constitution Hill
11 Kotze Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg
A former prison complex on a hill in Braamfontein, where Gandhi, Mandela and thousands of ordinary people were held, now home to South Africa's Constitutional Court. Museums in the Old Fort, Number Four and the Women's Jail tell the story of detention under colonial rule and apartheid.
Permanent exhibitions
- Old Fort: the colonial-era prison and its ramparts
- Number Four: the jail for Black men, with cells and isolation units
- Women's Jail: the stories of women detained, from Winnie Madikizela-Mandela to pass-law offenders
- Constitutional Court building and its art collection
- Gandhi in the Old Fort
