Throughout the second half of 2021, renovators and restorers were busy at work on Iziko’s house museum, Rust en Vreugd – returning this 18th century home to its former glory.
Rust en Vreugd, originally built as a home for Willem Cornelius Boers – a high-ranking official in the Dutch East India Company – was built on Cape Town’s outer limits; hence the name of the street it is located on, Buitenkant (outer edge).
In 1878, the house was bought by the Dutch Reformed Church and served as a teachers’ training college; the Cape Town High School occupied the property from 1925–1957; and in the early 1960s it was restored and converted into a gallery space. And the building, built between 1777 and 1778, has this year undergone restorations that have converted it into one of Cape Town’s premier museums.
Rust en Vreugd houses artworks on paper from the William Fehr Collection, and is open to the public on Thursdays and Fridays between 09h30 and 15h30.
To learn more about this historic building and the collections it houses visit HERE and HERE.




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