# Heart of Cape Town Museum

> This file is a plain-text rendition of a page on mytuur.com, generated from the same data as the HTML version.

Canonical page: https://mytuur.com/en/city/cape-town/spot/heart-of-cape-town-museum/

Content updated: 2026-06-22

This page is about one place: Heart of Cape Town Museum, a spot in Cape Town with a story of its own. The story itself lives in the myTuur app, and it begins when you arrive and the app knows you are standing there.

- City: [Cape Town](https://mytuur.com/en/city/cape-town/)

## Photos

- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_HeartofCapeTownMuseum_672e61e63b5f521d3642e6a1_0.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_first_heartbeat_in_Dr_Barnards_hands.JPG)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_HeartofCapeTownMuseum_672e61e63b5f521d3642e6a1_1.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_guest_from_the_future,_+44_years.JPG)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_HeartofCapeTownMuseum_672e61e63b5f521d3642e6a1_2.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wax_Figures_in_Heart_of_Capetown_Museum.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_HeartofCapeTownMuseum_672e61e63b5f521d3642e6a1_3.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lost_towel_number_15_found.JPG)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_HeartofCapeTownMuseum_672e61e63b5f521d3642e6a1_4.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Groote_Schuur_Hospital_in_South_Africa.JPG)

Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Cape Town. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.

## What is myTuur?

myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.