Contact Information

• Name:

  Museums of Malawi

• Postal Address:

  P.O. Box 30360
  3 Blantyre
  Malawi

• Location:

  Chichiri

• Telephone:

  265-630288; 630467; 630685

• Facsimile:

  265-632096

• Director:

  Dr. Martin E.D. Nhlane

• Year founded:

  1959

Collections

• Type of repository:

  Museum

• Types of source material:

  Artifacts
  

• Size:

  6,000 artifacts and specimens

• Holdings:

  The Museums of Malawi is both cultural and natural. Collections are mostly ethnographic with a few historical and archeological objects in the cultural section. The natural history section has specimens on birds, mammals, herpetology and entomology

• Receiving new material?

  No

• Languages:

  English
  

Access Conditions

• Access conditions:

  Free

• Finding tools:

  Accession lists or registers
  Card catalogs
  Inventories
  

• Copier available?:

  No

Repository publications:

• Ndiwula Newsletter. annual