Maritime Centre

Maritime Centre, Cape Town Museums, Cape Town

The Maritime Centre features an overview of shipping in Cape Town.

The earliest existing model of Table Bay harbour, completed in 1885 by prisoners and warders of Breakwater Prison, forms part of the exhibitions.
Images depicting Table Bay from the 17th to 20th century give an idea of the development of the harbour.

There is a collection of ship models and objects associated with shipping in Cape Town, in particular the era of mail-ships.

Maritime Centre, Cape Town Museums, Cape Town

Large and medium-sized images support the exhibitions, with the emphasis on the Union-Castle Line.

A key part of the Centre is the John H. Marsh Maritime Research Centre.
The Marsh collection consists of various collections including an important archive of nearly 20 000 photographs, depicting 9 200 ships dating from the late 1920s to the early 1960s.

Maritime Centre, Cape Town Museums, Cape Town

Useful Information

Hours:
Open Monday to Sunday: 10:00 - 17:00
Closed Workers Day and Christmas Day.

Website:
www.iziko.org.za/museums/maritime-centre

Telephone:
021 405 2880

Location:
1st Floor, Union-Castle House, Dock Road, V & A Waterfront

Return from the Maritime Centre page to What to do in Cape Town homepage

Share this page:

What’s this?

Enjoy this page? Please pay it forward. Here's how...

Would you prefer to share this page with others by linking to it?

Click on the HTML link code below.
Copy and paste it, adding a note of your own, into your blog, a Web page, forums, a blog comment, your Facebook account, or anywhere that someone would find this page valuable.