Huguenot Memorial Museum

The Huguenot Memorial Museum documents the gripping tale of the ruthless persecution of the Huguenots in France and the settlement of approximately three hundred of them at The Cape of Good hope in the late seventeeth century. Although they lost their language, the Huguenots made a larger contribution to the material and social development of the settlement at the Cape than the free burghers from the Dutch Republic or the German states.