Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Moto Moto Museum

    • Postal Address:

      P.. Box 420230
      Mbala
      Zambia

    • Location:

      Lucheche Road

    • Telephone:

      260-4-450098; 450243

    • Facsimile:

      260-4-450243

    • E-mail:

      motomoto@zamnet.zm

    • URL:

      http://www.natmus.cul.na/samp.html

    • Director:

      Flexon M. Mizinga

    • Year founded:

      1974

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Museum

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Artifacts
      Government records
      Grey literature
      Manuscripts
      Newspapers
      Oral histories
      Personal papers
      Photographs
      Sound recordings

    • Size:

      about 20,000

    • Holdings:

      The Moto Moto Museum has a collection of ethnographic, art, prehistoric, and historical items, including 100 sacred emblems from the Bemba girls initiation rite, traditional medicines and charms, 140 musical instruments, beauty aids, masks, stools, figurines, statuettes. Prehistoric items include hand axes, scrapers, arrowheads, bored stones, cleavers, and microliths (all mainly from the Kalambo Falls site) and 250 iron implements. Historical items include chiefs' regalia, photographs, maps, and other objects.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      Mainly the Northern ethnic group, the Bembas.

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      Public entrance fee for general viewing and by request to collections

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Card catalogs
      Guides
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications:

    • Booklet on archaeological findings and knowledge in Mbala.
    • Moto Moto Museum. n.d., brochure
    • Museum newsletter. annual