Houses a collection of South African, Dutch, French, Flemish, and British works from the 17th century through modern-day contemporary art.
The building is grand, with a gleaming white exterior, towering columns, and sash windows with polished wooden shutters. Inside are numerous art-filled rooms positioned around a peaceful central courtyard. Located at the base of Table Mountain, in the lush Company’s Garden.
This is the Mother City’s premier public art museum and houses a vast and critically engaging collection of historical, modern and some contemporary artworks from South Africa and abroad.
Selections from the Permanent Collection regularly change to enable the museum to have a full programme of temporary exhibitions of paintings, works on paper, photography, sculpture, beadwork, textiles and architecture. These exhibitions provide insight into the extraordinary range of creative work in South Africa. The permanent collection showcases some of the country’s finest talents (Gerard Sekoto, Irma Stern, Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef).
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“An assemblage of old and new, iconic and unfamiliar—and it’s that mix that counts.”
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