The Cape Town Science Centre is a not-for-profit science centre in Cape Town, South Africa. It forms part of a wide range of non-classroom initiatives to improve the quality of science understanding and

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in South Africa. Until early 2010, the MTN Sciencentre was located in the

Canal Walk Canal Walk is a shopping centre located in Cape Town, South Africa. It is largest shopping centre in the city. Built in what the developers call "Cape Venetian architecture", the shopping centre hosts over 400 stores, 7,000 parking bays, numero ...

shopping mall. It reopened in

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in 2011. The MTN Sciencentre's Ericsson

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is in the

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as the world's largest working cell phone.

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* Science museums Museums in Cape Town Science and technology in South Africa {{SouthAfrica-museum-stub Observatory, Cape Town