Things to do in Franschhoek

The museum offer the history of the area and the original French Huguenots who first settled here. There are many art effects, maps and insights to appreciate. There is also a tea room that offers good South African cuisine.

The Museum van de Caab tells the story of Delta farm, a story that is typical of so many of the old farms in the Drakenstein Valley. While many other places of interest to the public give general histories, what makes this Franschhoek Valley museum unique is the real voices of individual people, through which the farm’s story is told. These individual voices facilitatea personal connection between the present and the past, which could not be established through abstract facts and figures.

Both the historical and the archaeological traces of the people who lived on the farm are part of the displays and these elements embody the major themes of the Museum. However, the story of Delta farm cannot stand on its own. Its significance lies in its relationship to greater events and historical processes that shaped the human fabric of the Drakenstein Valley, and on a broader scale, South African society as a whole.It explores our history from all points of view, with special emphasis on the personal experiences of dispossessed Koi-San, pioneer settlers, slaves, and the current resident labourers - who remember only too well what it meant to be a farm-worker in the apartheid years - but also our hopes for the future.

The Gallery at Grande Provence has established itself as a leading location for contemporarySouth African art and a home for some of the best known South African artists. The Gallery features all the visual art forms, including painting, the graphic arts, sculpture, ceramics, and glass as well as jewelry from leading South African designers. Exhibitions change on a regular basis, usually with 6-weekly intervals.

Roubaix House Gallery is the home, studio and gallery of distinguished South African potter,David Walters. The downstairs studio offers visitors an insight into the production of studio ceramics, where David can be seen at work. Using white clays like stoneware and porcelain,the work is thrown on the wheel, and fired in a gas reduction kiln on the premises. Highly usable pots are made in this way, as well as decorated smoke fired pieces and stand alone collectable bowls, urns and platters - and some slumped glass too. The gallery comprises three intimate showrooms where recent work is offered for sale.