Museum
South African Naval Museum
Former Dutch East India Company storehouse and Royal Navy mast house turned maritime collection of ships, submarines and uniforms.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the South African Naval Museum in Simon's Town traces the VOC storehouse built here in 1743 to stop ships losing cargo to Table Bay's winter storms, and the profit motive that kept driving the site for the next century and a half. You'll hear how a private ship-repair venture, then the British Admiralty, expanded it into an eleven-hectare harbour and dry dock. The uniforms and models on display came only after all that.
This audio guide was created using AI.