# Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town — Citylit

Contemporary African art inside a spectacularly transformed grain silo.

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## Zeitz MOCAA

Contemporary African art inside a spectacularly transformed grain silo.

- City: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- Category: Entertainment
- Address: Silo District, South Arm Road, V&A Waterfront
- Citylit page: https://citylit.vercel.app/cape-town/entertainment/zeitz-mocaa
- Official website: https://zeitzmocaa.museum/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitz_Museum_of_Contemporary_Art_Africa
- Sources checked: 2026-10-08
- Coordinates: longitude 18.423, latitude -33.9084 (venue pin; entrance may be unverified)
- Coordinate source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitz\_Museum\_of\_Contemporary\_Art\_Africa

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) is a public non-profit museum in Cape Town, South Africa. Zeitz MOCAA opened on September 22, 2017 as the largest museum of contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. The museum is located in the Silo District at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town. A retail and hospitality property, the Waterfront receives around 24 million local and international visitors per year.

About source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitz_Museum_of_Contemporary_Art_Africa; checked 2026-10-12; license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

### Practical facts
- admission: Unknown / unconfirmed (unknown)
- booking: Unknown / unconfirmed (unknown)
- stepFreeEntrance: Unknown / unconfirmed (unknown)
- accessibleToilets: Unknown / unconfirmed (unknown)
- parking: Unknown / unconfirmed (unknown)
- publicTransport: Unknown / unconfirmed (unknown)
- family: Unknown / unconfirmed (unknown)
- environment: Unknown / unconfirmed (unknown)
- durationMinutes: 90 (editorial-estimate); checked 2026-10-08; source: Citylit editorial planning estimate

### Sources
- Zeitz MOCAA - Museum of Contemporary Art - Zeitz MOCAA: https://zeitzmocaa.museum/; fetched 2026-10-08; retrieved during research
- Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitz_Museum_of_Contemporary_Art_Africa; fetched 2026-10-07; retrieved during research

### Photographs and credits
- https://citylit.vercel.app/images/094b2b841d14.jpg — Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town. Venue photograph. Author: Matti Blume; license: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0); source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zeitz_Museum_of_Contemporary_Art_Africa,_Cape_Town_(_1050775).jpg
- https://citylit.vercel.app/images/861c84cb2815.jpg — Interior of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), showing the carved concrete atrium created from repurposed grain silos.. Venue photograph. Author: lumoplank; license: CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en); source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cape_Town_architecture,_Part_II_-_20240912_135259.jpg
- https://citylit.vercel.app/images/d5c3e20e6db8.jpg — The old grain silo at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa is being repurposed to house the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MoCAA) scheduled t. Venue photograph. Author: HelenOnline; license: CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0); source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:V%26A_Grain_Silo_1.jpg

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