Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Shinyanga Mazingira Museum

    • Postal Address:

      P.O. Box 797
      Shinyanga
      Tanzania

    • Location:

      Mazingira Center

    • Telephone:

      255-28-2763249

    • Facsimile:

      255-28-2762198

    • E-mail:

      hashi@africaonline.co.tz

    • Director:

      Hadji Hatibu, Head of Department

    • Year founded:

      1992

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Museum

    • Types of source material:

      Artifacts
      Photographs

    • Size:

      4,00 items

    • Holdings:

      Defence items (spears, shields, arrows, bows, etc.); traditional medicine items; costumes; household items (baskets, gourds, wooden utensils, pots, etc.); traditional beekeeping items( log, bark hive, ropes, etc.); body decoration items (copper and silver rings, beads, and shells); bones of wild animals, photographs of chiefs and famous traditional healers, caves, foot prints, etc.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      English, Swahili, Sukuma

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      Free

    • Access restrictions:

      None

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Guides
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications:

    • Project Document. 1998/2001 Shinyanga Mazingira Museum