Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      National Mining Museum

    • Postal Address:


      Kwekwe
      Zimbabwe

    • Location:

      P.O. Box 512

    • Telephone:

      263 (55) 23741

    • E-mail:

      minmus@globalzim.net

    • Director:

      Josiah Rungano Mhute

    • Year founded:

      1984

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Museum

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Artifacts
      Manuscripts
      Newspapers
      Personal papers
      Photographs

    • Holdings:

      It is a mining collection comprising machinery, tools, photographs, biographies, mine histories (unpublished), mining journals, and other collections related to mining episodes of Zimbabwean past. The institution specializes in mining antiquarian and mining collection interpretation and research.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      English, Shona, Ndebele

  • Access Conditions

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Card catalogs
      Guides

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications: