Hout Bay Museum, Local history museum in Hout Bay, South Africa.

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.

The museum grew out of a 1975 Cultural Arts Festival in Hout Bay, where exhibitions on the Strandlopers, early residents and coastal shipwrecks showed the need for a permanent home for the valley's records. Retired conservation official Jimmy Steele led the campaign, and part of Kronendal School was leased for R1 a year. Pam Wormser became first curator in August 1978, and the museum opened on 5 April 1979, gaining provincial recognition that November.

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 building was originally the headmaster's house of Kronendal School, leased for R1 a year. The Hout Bay/Llandudno Round Table repaired it in 1978, and the garden layout was designed by landscape architects Mr and Mrs Fuller Gee.