Admission

Open and closing times

The Maropeng Visitor Centre is open to the public from 09h00 to 17h00 every day. The last boat ride departs at 16h00.

Admission fees

Adults: R105
Children (4-14 years): R60
Children under 4: Free
Pensioners/Students: R75 (on production of a valid pensioner/student card)

Combination ticket (Maropeng and Sterkfontein Caves)

Adults: R175
Children (4-14 years): R102
Children under 4: Free

Please note: the combination ticket is only available until 1pm, in order for visitors to have enough time to see both exhibitions.

The Maropeng Visitor Centre and its restaurants are all wheelchair accessible.

The Visitor Centre

The Maropeng Visitor Centre is an exciting, world-class exhibition space, focusing on the development of humans and our ancestors over the past few million years.

Early humans and their ancestors came to the Maropeng area to use the local rocks for tool-making as they pursued a hunter-gatherer way of life. The technology of these tools suggests they were made sometime between 1.0 and 0.5 million years ago during the Earlier Stone Age, prior to the appearance of modern Homo sapiens.

The Exhibition

The exhibition is a self-guided one and can take anything from one to seven hours, depending on your level of interest and time availabilty. It is highly interactive and enjoyable, and will engage visitors of all ages. Over weekends and public holidays guided tours are conducted regularly at no additional cost. Ask the ticket office upon arrival when the next tour will commence.