The Museum van de Caab is housed in an 18th Century wine cellar on the 320-year-old Solms-Delta wine estate in Franschhoek. The museum records the complex and fascinating history of South Africa through the individual people who lived and worked on the farm, from its pre-historic past to the present – through colonialism, slavery and apartheid. Evidence of pre-colonial habitation is shown in excavated stone artefacts housed in glass cabinets.

Other archaeological remains in the museum are displayed in a stream of delicate ceramic fragments, all found on Solms-Delta. Visitors are offered guided open-air tours of the excavated foundations of a 17th Century ruined homestead, a Dutch well and a Later Stone Age settlement site. The Fyndraai restaurant has a glass floor that floats above the exposed remains of the old wine cellar, and is part of a conservation initiative on the estate to restore 12ha of farmland to the original mix of fynbos and renosterveld.