Museum
Bertram House
213 Government Ave, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000
Red-brick Georgian townhouse of sash windows and a spiral stair, once home to a pioneering colonial photographer.
This guide to Bertram House in Cape Town follows Tiberias Kisch, a boarding-housekeeper who once ran a groundbreaking photography studio in the Karoo town of Colesberg, introducing the affordable carte-de-visite portrait format in 1863. You'll hear how his career moved on through a diamond claim, customs work and Cape Town's tramway before he ever set foot in this house, and about the attorney who actually built it decades earlier. Look up at the sash windows and steep Welsh-slate roof as you listen.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.