Museum Africa

This guide to Museum Africa in Johannesburg opens before dawn one December morning in 1956, when police fanned out across South Africa and arrested 156 people on a charge of high treason, among them future leaders of the nation. You'll hear how the case dragged through Johannesburg and Pretoria courts for four years while families lost homes waiting on a verdict, and how the building itself once rang as the city's fruit and vegetable market for over sixty years. It traces the exhibition built here to tell that story, and what the courtroom crowds outside were watching for.