Hector Pieterson Museum

Introduction

Hector Pieterson Museum is built to commemorate the 12-year-old boy Hector Pieterson who died in the 1976 Soweto Uprising, an important historical witness to South Africa anti-apartheid struggle. Through photographs, videos, artifacts and oral histories, the museum comprehensively presents the events of 16 June 1976 when Soweto students protested against the apartheid education system, and the profound impact of this uprising on South African history. The most powerful exhibit is the famous photograph of Pieterson being carried after being shot, which became an iconic image for global condemnation of apartheid. Visiting here offers deep understanding of the price paid by South African youth for freedom, and is an unmissable place to understand modern South African history.

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