Robben Island Museum

World Heritage Site

 

Tour Schedule

Ferries depart at 9am, 11am, 1pm and 3pm, weather permitting, from Nelson Mandela Gateway, at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town. Tickets cost R200 for adults and R100 for children (U/18). More about Robben Island Tours...

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Robben Island Museum

From the 17th to the 20th centuries, Robben Island served as a place of banishment, isolation and imprisonment. Today it is a World Heritage Site and museum, a poignant reminder to the newly democratic South Africa of the price paid for freedom.

 

Did you know?

In 1846 a General Infirmary was established on Robben Island to cater for three specific categories of the sick in the colony who were poor – the insane, the chronically ill, and those with leprosy.