Iziko Maritime Centre

Slightly underwhelming

This is a very small maritime museum. The exhibits are interesting, but there really isn't that much to see. They closed an hour earlier than what was stated on the sign at the entrance so I felt a bi...

About the only place left in the V&A Waterfront that pay any homage to the area's maritime past

Years ago the V&A Waterfront had a big, fantastic maritime museum. It even has two museum ships (one is now being scrapped and the other has been sold and moved to a small town miles from the ocean). ...

Interesting to visit!

Housed in a stunning art deco building, is this museum displaying some of our more interesting maritime involvement, as well as a few scale models of some of the old Union Castle liners. There is als...

Maritime accomplishments and tragedies on display

For just R20 (about $2 CAD), drop by this small museum for a bit of the history of the old port, from the days when it was established as a refreshment station for the Dutch East India Company, throug...

Well we loved it.

In 1970 I worked as a photographer on 2 Union Castle ships, so to be in the Union Castle building alongside ship models and history boards was heaven for me. Very under visited. Good research libra...