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 costs are R220 for adults and R110 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.

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Did you know?

Warders and their families only visited the mainland on their two weekends off each month. For them, arriving at Jetty 1 at the V&A Waterfront meant leaving the ‘freedom’ of the mainland behind and returning to their own kind of isolation on Robben Island.