# Mandela House in Johannesburg — Citylit

Step inside Mandela’s former family home, with photographs and personal objects tracing a remarkable life.

Canonical page: https://citylit.vercel.app/johannesburg/entertainment/mandela-house

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## Mandela House

Step inside Mandela’s former family home, with photographs and personal objects tracing a remarkable life.

- City: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
- Category: Entertainment
- Address: 8115 Vilakazi Street, Orlando West, Soweto
- Citylit page: https://citylit.vercel.app/johannesburg/entertainment/mandela-house
- Official website: https://www.mandelahouse.com/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandela_House
- Sources checked: 2026-10-08
- Coordinates: longitude 27.9088035, latitude -26.238497 (venue pin; entrance may be unverified)
- Coordinate source: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/674918334

The Nelson Mandela National Museum, commonly referred to as Mandela House, is the house on Vilakazi Street, Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa where Nelson Mandela lived from 1946 to 1962. It is located at number 8115, around the corner of Vilakazi and Ngakane Streets and a short distance up the road from Tutu House, the home of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. Mandela donated the house to the Soweto Heritage Trust, of which he was the founder, on 1 September 1997 for it to be run as a museum. The house was declared a National Heritage Site in 1999.

About source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandela_House; 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
- Mandela House – 8115 Vilakazi St, orlando West, Soweto: https://www.mandelahouse.com/; fetched 2026-10-08; retrieved during research
- Mandela House: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandela_House; fetched 2026-10-07; retrieved during research

### Photographs and credits
- https://citylit.vercel.app/images/0219ef2956a5.jpg — Nelson Mandela's former house, now Mandela Family Museum, Soweto, Johannesburg.. Venue photograph. Author: No machine-readable author provided. Moongateclimber assumed (based on copyright claims).; license: CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/); source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mandela_museum_soweto.jpg

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