The Cape Town Diamond Museum tells the story of the most beautiful jewel in the world, the diamond. Here you can discover this 3 billion-year-old story from the beginning of the formation of the diamond to the final polished stone, and the Cape Town Diamond Museum honors the most famous cut diamonds in South Africa. It presents samples of kimberlite rocks dating back billions of years, as the long time factor is essential in this topic, because diamonds are formed from carbon after being subjected to great pressure for a long period of millions of years and perhaps more.