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The District Six Museum has broken with the traditional ideas of museums and collecting. It has created and implemented the concept of an interactive public space where it is the people's response to District Six that provides the drama and the fabric of the museum.
Sandra Prosalendis, former Director of the District Six Museum.

Remembering cannot disengage from idealising and even sentimentalising, and there's a substantial selection of the latter. If poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity, then many of these images are a kind of demotic assembling of nostalgia and longing and loss. ….But there is still a lot to be learnt by reading these images of loss and the longing they represent - a closely woven urban texture, a human scale, a space for eccentricity, an opportunity to know and not fear your neighbours, and a life that could be lived on the street. Memory can become myth. But the enduring reality of District Six, mythic and memorable, is how fiercely its spirit is cherished.
Neville Dubow - reviewing Image and Representation, a joint exhibition between the District Six Museum and the South African National Gallery.

"We want the Museum to be a place of healing, but we don't want this to happen again. We dare not forget."
Stan Abrahams, ex-resident and Trustee of the District Six Museum.

There is something about walking into that old, wooden-ceilinged church, where the descendants of slaves used to worship and sing and talk, that brings oppression, genocide and redemption into a single space that my mind can take hold of, without being overwhelmed. The tobacco-stained detail of Welcome Dover stoves and a mother's doek and her hand in her armpit as she tries to come to terms with the death of her son in another act of Cape violence, deliberate or accidental.
John Matshikiza - Mail and Guardian.

If anyone is visiting from Namibia, Windhoek, please make a museum like this on the Old Location!
Karen Walker, England.

As an American Black I can relate to your continued struggle. Your work is an inspiration to all who have come to learn.
D. Wales, Maryland, USA.

Cape Town and Ireland have so many similarities in love and hate. Help to reclaim the spirit of one community.
Megan, Union of Students in Ireland.

The past is not easily erased. After the nazi's destroyed Warsaw the Polish people rebuilt the city as it had been. Let us hope you can also reconstruct this District where you used to live in peace.
In solidarity, Arial Dorfman, Chile.