Zimbabwe Museum of Human Sciences


The Zimbabwe Museum of Human Sciences is a national museum in Harare, Zimbabwe. Founded in 1903 and renamed after independence in 1980, it focuses on archaeology and anthropology.
According to the Zimbabwe Embassy, the museum houses a library, exhibition galleries, and a model Shona village, in addition to its ethnographic and archaeological holdings. Wildlife exhibits are also on show in public galleries.
The museum contains the seven-hundred-year-old Lemba artifact Ngoma Lungundu, which is the oldest wooden object ever found in sub-Saharan Africa.
The museum is located in Harare’s Civic Centre, at the corner of Rotten Row and Samora Machel Avenue, Harare, Zimbabwe.