Ripley's Believe It Or Not - Cape Town

Experience 200 amazing artifacts at Cape Town's favorite spot. Ripley’s Believe It or Not! at the V&A Waterfront is a “must see” when you visit Cape Town!

So, what's inside?

The only place in Cape Town where you’ll find genuine human shrunken heads, a megladon jaw, a Dodo skeleton, miniature art in the eye of a needle and so much more!

OVER 95 YEARS OF COLLECTING

The Ripley exhibit collection represents over 95 years of collecting by Robert Ripley and his corporate heirs.

The foundation of the over 25,000 piece collection was gathered and assembled by Ripley himself on his many travels around the world, but our staff today continues to add new pieces to the collection almost daily.

A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING

We have exhibits from the microscopic world and the worlds of science and computer technologies.

We have artifacts that have been flown in space, including flags flown on the moon and meteorites from Mars!

Ripley was intrigued with animal oddities, poor creatures dealt strange fates by Mother Nature. He called them “pranks of nature.”

The Ripley collection today includes a horse with three legs, two- headed calves, pigs, rabbits, turtles and kittens. We have albinos, giant snakes and alligators, a whole menagerie of multi-winged and multi-limbed birds, and even a headless chicken!

Ripley was also fascinated by people, especially those with extreme cases of human growth.