Hector Pieterson Museum

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The Hector Pieterson Museum is a memorial and museum in Soweto, South Africa, dedicated to commemorating the 1976 Soweto Uprising and the role of students in the struggle against apartheid.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf memorial
museum
associatedWith June 16 commemorations
South African liberation struggle
category Apartheid museums
Monuments and memorials in South Africa
Museums in Johannesburg
commemorates 1976 Soweto Uprising
Soweto Uprising
student protests against apartheid
country South Africa
dedicatedTo students killed in 1976 protests
victims of the Soweto Uprising
dedicationDate 2002-06-16
focusesOn Bantu Education system
youth resistance to apartheid
hasExhibit archival documents on apartheid education
audio-visual material on 1976 protests
oral histories of participants
photographs of the Soweto Uprising
hasPhotograph iconic image of Hector Pieterson being carried after being shot
hasType history museum
memorial museum
heritageDesignation memorial site
inception 2002
languageOfExhibition English
Sesotho
isiZulu
locatedIn Gauteng
Johannesburg
Soweto
locatedInNeighborhood Orlando West, Soweto
locatedOnStreet Khumalo Street
namedAfter Hector Pieterson
near Hector Pieterson Memorial
Orlando West
openingDate 2002-06-16
operator City of Johannesburg
ownedBy City of Johannesburg
partOf Soweto heritage trail
publicAccess yes
significantEventDate 1976-06-16
subjectOf Soweto tourism
heritage studies on post-apartheid memory
theme anti-apartheid struggle
human rights
student activism
touristAttraction true

Referenced by (3)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Soweto ("Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum")
hasLandmark
Johannesburg
hasMuseum
Hector Pieterson Museum ("Hector Pieterson Memorial")
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