Fish Hoek Museum calls for wider input

Photo courtesy Fish Hoek Valley Museum. https://www.fishhoekvalleymuseum.co.za/

The Fish Hoek Valley Museum has embarked on a research mission to expand its historical mandate of artifacts and stories to include other areas of the Deep South, including Kommetjie.

The museum was established in 1994 by the Fish Hoek Valley Historical Association, with the objective of collecting, preserving and exhibiting objects and records concerning the history of Fish Hoek Valley.

The Fish Hoek Valley is an area bounded by Scarborough, Kommetjie, Sunnydale, Noordhoek, Clovelly and Fish Hoek – and which now includes Sun Valley, Ocean View, Masiphumelele and a host of suburbs.

Cape Town municipality has provided premises for the museum – a small 5-roomed house, which is located to the right of the entrance to the Fish Hoek civic centre

The Historical Association, the Museum and the Museum Trust, which is the museum’s legal entity, are all run by volunteers.

Over its first thirty years the primary focus of the Fish Hoek Valley Museum has been on the

prehistorical evidence found within Peer’s Cave and on the history of Fish Hoek itself.

It is now time for the museum to research and reflect upon more of the Valley as a whole, and to

deliberately include all of the other areas, communities and their histories. There may also be

opportunities to establish or support exhibits beyond the museum itself and arrange talks,

workshops and tours in every locality and for every community.

We therefore invite residents and organisations in all locations in the Valley to contact the Curator

of the museum, Sue Maude, to begin exploring possibilities.

Sue Maude, who is curator of the project, can be reached at telephone: 062 576 6166, email: curator.fishhoekvalleymuseum@gmail.com and at the museum on Wednesday and Friday mornings between 09h30 and 12h30.