The Apartheid Museum opened 2001 and is acknowledged as the pre-eminent museum in the world dealing with 20th Century South Africa, at the heart of which is apartheid story – a nation's resistance, courage and fortitude.

The exhibits have been assembled an organized by a multi-disciplinary team of curators, film-markers, historians and designers. They include provocative film footage, photographs, text panels and artifacts illustrating the events and human stories that are part of the epic saga Known as apartheid.