ABSTRACT
Sixty-thousand people were forcibly removed from District Six from 1966 when the Apartheid government designated District Six, a diverse and vibrant part of the city of Cape Town, South Africa, a White Group Area. Addressing the past and supporting rightful and positive redress, District Six Museum intentionally encourages new opportunities for meaning making and subjectivity; ways of being and thinking that the forced removals and the broader context of Apartheid took away from a constituency that has been excluded, silenced and oppressed. District Six Museum has a number of 'distinctive curatorial features'. Purposefully avoiding interpreting the stories of others, District Six Museum was developed as an open framework that leads viewers into 'an interactive relationship with the contents'. For instance, the map painting on the floor showing the street network of District Six prior to demolition was designed as a receptive surface as well as a means for viewers to identify the position of streets.
