The Apartheid Museum tour.

Opening Hours
Tue - Sun, 10h00 - 17h00
The Apartheid Museum is closed on Mondays, Good Friday and Christmas Day.

The Apartheid Museum opened in 2001 and is acknowledged as the pre-eminent museum in the world dealing with 20th century South Africa, at the heart of which is the apartheid story.

In 1995 the South African government set up a process for the granting of casino licenses, establishing an agency to do this called the Gambling Board. The bid documents stipulated that bidders should demonstrate how they would attract tourism and thereby grow the economy and stimulate job creation.

A consortium, called Akani Egoli(build Johannesburg), put in a bid that included the commitment to building a museum. Their bid was successful, the Gold Reef City casino was built and an adjacent piece of land given for the construction of a museum now the Apartheid Museum.

The Pillars of the ConstitutionBetween 1994 and 1996 South Africa's first fully democratic parliament,  sitting as the Constitutional Assembly, drew up South Africa's new  constitution. It contains guarantees of equality more extensive than  anywhere else in the world. At its heart are seven fundamental values  which are represented by the pillars in the first courtyard visitors encounter on arrival at the museum: democracy, equality, reconciliation, diversity, responsibility, respect and freedom.  The Apartheid Museum tour will leave you with a good understanding of the South African past.