Hector-Pieterson-Museum

The Hector Pieterson Museum is a large museum in Orlando, Soweto, South Africa. It is two blocks away from the place where Hector Pieterson was shot, he and the 565 other victims of 1976 to commemorate the museum received its name. The museum presents the events that led to the uprising in Soweto, and the collection itself

When it was opened on 16 June 2002 it was the first museum in the hitherto much neglected, ghetto -like suburbs of Johannesburg. The project cost a total of about 23.2 million Rand, of which 16 million were applied by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism and 7.2 million from the City of Johannesburg.

At the entrance is the Hector Pieterson Memorial in a small park.

Weblink

  • Information on www.joburg.org.za (English)
  • Information on gauteng.net (English)
  • Report on a visit to the Museum, with photos ( English)

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  • Museum in South Africa
  • Apartheid
  • Building in Johannesburg
  • Johannesburg
  • Built in the 2000s
Soweto uprising
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