Koopmans De Wet House Museum

35 Strand Street
Cape Town
South Africa

(021) 481-3935  /   021 424 6441

35 Strand Street, Cape Town, South Africa
This house museum is furnished as a home for a well-to-do Cape family during the late 18th Century. It houses some of the best pieces of Cape furniture and silver in the country, in addition to a priceless collection of ceramics
Category: Museums
Links: WC Government
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Reviews

  • JJ

    Jilldutoit
    31 JUL 2018

    This is the real deal... ultra thick walls, small windows letting in little natural light, in fact, apart from the laying on of electricity, it remains more or less as it was during the last owners...

  • FF

    f2s
    19 DEC 2017

    Don’t miss this atmospheric home. Not getting nearly enough visitors to these great old Dutch rooms. The antique furniture is amazing, and the story boards tell of a very busy household.

  • KK

    Kirkcaldylad
    19 DEC 2017

    The house sits on Strand Street and stands out as it is original. When it was built, it was “on the beach” and now it is on one of the CBD’s busiest streets well back from the sea front and flanked...

  • AE

    Abdallah E
    13 DEC 2017

    The place might not be easy to spot at a first glance, but it's just in the main road by strand street. It's well kept from inside with quite a few things to see to have some kind of background drop...

  • JM

    Jill M
    1 NOV 2017

    We wanted to see some of the colonial history and how the early settlers lived. This house is very beautiful and still has the feel of what it must have been like. Pottery, furniture and items if...

  • MM

    MootHouse
    12 SEP 2017

    Easily missed. 200R entry fee is trivial. Not really old by UK standards, but historic with its connection to the struggles over the war between Britain and the Boers. Shocking to hear about the...

  • MM

    Mike_G6308
    18 MAY 2017

    A museum gem in the middle of Cape Town Centre,period house which needs a little love and care.Thank you Iziko for the Museum Day Free Entry

  • FK

    F.G. K
    1 JUL 2016

    This amazingly beautiful house is very well restored and preserved and the interior and decor is immaculate.

  • DG

    Dirmu G
    10 MAR 2016

    The rooms all open up out of a central room. Beautiful old furniture & crockery & carpets, etc. At the back there is a coach in a coachhouse, with a very steep staircase to a room at the top. It...

  • KK

    KBofLB
    20 JAN 2016

    This is a building which could easily be missed but is well worth visiting. It gives a wonderful glimpse of how a moneyed family in Cape Town lived in the 19th and early 20th century. This is...

Classification

Cape Town, Cape Metropole, Western Cape, South Africa
Museums
WC Government

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