Johannesburg has many interesting museums, such as the National Museum of Military History, the Railway Museum, the Nelson Mandela National Museum and the Apartheid Museum.
The collection of the Museum of Military History is mainly represented by military equipment, among which one of the few surviving German jet fighters is the Messerschmitt Me.262 from the Second World War. In addition, the museum exhibits the so—called “rhinoceroses” – South African 155-millimeter self-propelled artillery installations of the class of self-propelled howitzers. The museum is open to visitors daily from 09:00 to 16:30. The ticket costs 30-40 ZAR. Read more about it on the museum’s website (in English).
The Nelson Mandela National Museum is located in Soweto — in the house where the first black president of South Africa and the leader of the struggle against apartheid lived with his family in the 90s. The museum is open every day from 09:00 to 17:00.
The Apartheid Museum, the first of its kind, opened in 2001 to show the world how South Africa fought racial discrimination against blacks. Among the exhibits of the museum you can see provocative film footage, photographs and other artifacts telling about the events and human stories of the apartheid period. The museum is open to visitors from 09:00 to 17:00.