Rosebank Art & Craft Market

5 Sudheer Bonam - 7 months ago

This place is inside the rose bank mall, its so neat and secure, vendors are so friendly and give us opportunity to negotiate the price. these guys have wonderful art work. please support them.

5 Liz Hattaway (Ginger On the Go) - 6 months ago

Gorgeous selection of beautiful pieces to remember your time in the wonderful city of Johannesburg! Definitely stop by the booth Bebey in the upper lobby for some fantastic dresses and skirts made by a local Artisan!

5 Gaëlle Gosselin - 4 months ago

Best place to go if you're a tourist looking for African souvenirs or a local getting gifts to take overseas. The traders are super friendly and helpful, never overwhelming, always give good advice, happy to negotiate prices. I love it ! Great selection of items of all sorts, you're guaranteed to find something just right :))

2 Vinet Coetzee - 2 weeks ago

Overall the market was very vibrant with many good stalls. Unfortunately our experience with one seller left a sour taste. We wanted to buy some Xhosa items for my adopted daughters, who are ethnically Xhosa. This seller sold us a red mask which he claimed was Xhosa, red representing love, the birds representing freedom etc. They loved it! Turns out to be a Mblo mask from Ivory coast. I had to break it to them that the "beautiful story" wasn't true. Take home message. Most sellers are probably honourable, but not all of them.

2 XO XO - a month ago

I'm giving it 2 stars because you can find some good touristy things; however the shopping experience is a nightmare. I've never experienced anything like it. And I've traveled to many other countries and even in south africa I have never seen this behavior. The upstairs section is fine, but once you get downstairs.... oh dear lord! Imagine having more than 20 vendors chasing you pretty much your whole time there. They are relentless. Instead of letting you look they all grab your arm pulling you into their kiosk area. It's really a shame because that's really the only store around, to shop for touristy items. After I figured out that everyone was acting like this was a zoo I ran out. I hope management sees this review because others have complained about the same thing. You guys are losing business. By the way if you decide to buy something remember to haggle the price min. half off. That's the true price of the items. Unfortunately tourists are always charged double to sometimes triple. Also do know what they sell there is sold overall all over South Africa; so they aren't selling something handmade and personable made by them. I think I saw two vendors making something by hand.

2 Edva Ferreira - a month ago

I'm giving a two for the low variety of products and because the artisans look desperate to sell anything! It's very similar to the Rosebank Sunday market, maybe it's the same people who organized it all, they have this consistent problem of always bringing more of the same, then I believe it's because of this the artisans are desperate to sell, because if you don't buy from their stall, you'll buy from the next, it's all the same stuff and they know it! You can't breath there, you're looking something and the neighbors are screaming on your ear "HELLO, CHECK HERE, I HAVE NICE PRODUCTS!!!"! It's a shame! I put my feet in and just wanted to runaway from there on the next second!
You have a big space, I don't know why you don't explore it with variety! If you fastly check around Instagram that's thousands of artists that may be happy to expose their art with you! It doesn't surprise that it's always empty inside, maybe you should change the person who choose the vendors! I really don't know how they make money!
I hope you get my constructive words and think about it, you have the privileges that almost no one have!

4 Jeffrey Knipe - a month ago

Was a great experience, the shop owners are a little over enthusiastic, but all the hand crafted pieces make it totally worth a visit. Just make sure you set a strict budget for yourself if you love African art.