• The Hector Pieterson Museum became one of the first museums in Soweto when it opened on 16 June 2002. A companion museum nearby is Mandela...
  • Just a short walk away is the Hector Pieterson Museum, named after a 12-year-old boy shot dead by police on the first day of the Soweto Uprising in 1976.
  • The museum and memorial are sobering records of the events leading to, and following on from, the murder of Hector Pieterson.
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  • The museum is named after one of the first casualties. But commerates all of those that marched through Soweto and shot at by police on the 16 June, 1976!
  • Drive through Soweto heading to the famous Hector Pieterson Museum with its dark history about the youth uprising in 1976.
  • The Hector Pieterson Museum, resembles an interpretive centre, and is dedicated to the events that led up to, and includes, the 16th June 1976 students uprising.
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  • The Hector Pieterson Memorial and museum opened in Soweto in 2002, not far from the spot where 12 year-old Hector ...
  • A silence fell over our group as we imagined what took place there years ago. We then ventured to the Hector Pieterson Museum located just beyond the corner.
  • Hector Pieterson Museum, Johannesburg - One of the most powerful and emotive images of the Apartheid struggle was taken right in the heart of Soweto...
  • The Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto's Khumalo Street recalls the events of 16 June 1976 and the ensuing Soweto Uprising.
  • This is the picture that stands at the Hector Pieterson’s memorial outside the Hector Peterson Museum.