Zimbabwe's Museum Quarter: History, Science & Shona Sculpture
Explore Harare's museum district from natural history to the extraordinary Shona stone sculpture movement that made Zimbabwe famous in the art world
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Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe
An old fashioned but extensive natural history collection with mammal dioramas, bird specimens and an exceptional Geology Hall of Zimbabwe's minerals
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Shona Sculpture Gallery
Zimbabwe's extraordinary art movement — self-taught sculptors carving spiritually charged figures from green serpentine, black springstone and leopard stone
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Museum of Human Sciences
Formerly the Queen Victoria Museum, now recontextualized as a showcase for Zimbabwe's pre-colonial civilizations and independence struggle heritage
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Chapungu Sculpture Park Visit
A private garden park displaying hundreds of Shona stone sculptures in a garden setting — arguably the best sculpture collection in all of Africa
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Book cafe Kulturscen
The legendary Book Café in Avondale was Zimbabwe's premier arts venue for poetry, jazz and political debate for three decades
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The National Archives' reading room
The Colonial Archives has the complete record of Rhodesia and Zimbabwe - historians can access original newspapers and government documents