Hout Bay Museum

Hout Bay Museum is a local history museum in a valley south of Cape Town, spread across multiple rooms at Andrews Road. The collection contains artifacts, photographs, and documents that show how this area developed over the decades.

This museum was founded in 1979 after a conservation official decided to preserve the valley's history. The graffiti left by construction workers from the 1920s on the museum walls tells the story of early infrastructure development in the area.

The museum displays how people lived and worked in this valley, focusing on fishing, forestry, and the original Khoi-San communities of the region. These exhibitions reveal how different groups shaped the place over generations.

The museum is accessible by public transport or car and sits in a residential area with basic services nearby. The rooms are straightforward to navigate, but it helps to allow enough time to look through all the exhibitions carefully.

The museum walls still display graffiti left by workers who helped build the famous winding road Chapman's Peak in the 1920s. These markings offer a rare glimpse into the everyday lives of these workers from a century ago.