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The document discusses three museums in South Africa: the Apartheid Museum, the Hector Peterson Museum, and Museum Africa. The Apartheid Museum opened in 2001 and shows the origins and fall of apartheid. The Hector Peterson Museum commemorates victims of the 1976 Soweto uprising, including Hector Peterson. Museum Africa was established in 1933, collected aspects of African culture, and was refurbished and renamed after apartheid ended.

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The document discusses three museums in South Africa: the Apartheid Museum, the Hector Peterson Museum, and Museum Africa. The Apartheid Museum opened in 2001 and shows the origins and fall of apartheid. The Hector Peterson Museum commemorates victims of the 1976 Soweto uprising, including Hector Peterson. Museum Africa was established in 1933, collected aspects of African culture, and was refurbished and renamed after apartheid ended.

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The Apartheid Museum was opened in 2001.This Museum is the first of its kind. When students
pays a visit to this museum, they will be able to see the origins of Apartheid, how people were
treated and oppressed by the apartheid government, laws that were imposed on Black people,
such as discrimination, racial segregation which showed how people were divided according to
their nationality, the oppressive pass laws which forced Black people to carry passes everywhere
they go .At this museum students will also see the fall of Apartheid government in 1994 and the
beginning of Democracy. The exhibits have been assembled and organized by a team of curators,
film makers, historians and designers.

   

B y visiting the Hector Peterson museums, learners will learn that the Hector Peterson Museum is
dedicated to the memory of all those who died in Soweto Uprising, especially Hector Peterson who
was one of the victims of Soweto Uprising. He was only 13 years of age at that time. Hector
Peterson Memoriam is located in Orlando West (Soweto), a couple of blocks away from the
intersections where Hector Peterson and other victims were gunned down by the police in 1976.

This museum attracted so many tourists since it has opened, even foreign countries visited Soweto
because of this Museum. Since this Museum was opened, the journey was taken back in time to 16
June 1976. Photographs, videos͛, pictures and printed material forms part of a permanent
exhibition which attracts students, parents and everyone to visited this museum.

 


This Museum was established in 1933, it became part of the Apartheid Government. It collects all
aspects of the African Cultural History and cultural material. In 1994 after the fall of apartheid and
the beginning of Democratic government in South Africa, the Museum was refurbished and
renamed Museum Africa.; so when learners visit this museum, they will be able to see sculptures
and learn that history is real and it is there to stay.

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