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Mutare Museum

Mutare Museum was initially established by local enthusiasts as the Umtali Museum Society in 1954,...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Manicaland

Early European visitors to Hartley Hills goldfield

William “Curio” Harvey Brown describes how on 1st October 1890 the Pioneers were...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Zimbabwe’s political leadership belongs to the old order; it’s time they were replaced by new leaders like Zambia’s Hakainde Hichilema

IntroductionIn 2025 Maia Sandu, Moldova’s President was nominated The Telegraph’s World...

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Harare

An Introduction to the significance of Mapungubwe

Background to MapungubweMapungubwe Hill was first investigated in 1932 by a local farmer, E.S.J....

Category:

Cultural

Province:

Masvingo

First Baronet Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Norton-Griffiths, KCB, DSO – the Great War engineer whose mine explosions at Messines Ridge on 7 June 1917 were heard 240 kms away in London

Sir John Norton-Griffiths, First Baronet, KCB, DSO (13 July 1871 – 27 September 1930)...

Category:

Historic

Province:

Mashonaland West

Mutoko (or Tere) Monument

Local Budya people believe the ruins were built and occupied in the 1600’s by Makate, a man...

Category:

Ruins, Building

Province:

Mashonaland East

Welcome

One of the purposes of this website is to reassure visitors that the whole of Zimbabwe, including those remotest corners, are safe to travel.

The only way that today’s visitors and residents of Zimbabwe can appreciate the jigsaw puzzle of Zimbabwe’s history is by visiting and by walking through these silent sites and examining them and reading the excellent site descriptions and brochures that are available which I would encourage NMMZ to keep expanding. If this guide helps those visitors a little in understanding the background information then the effort in preparing it will have been repaid.

Each article gives a breakdown of sites by area and by category on what there is to see, and each location has detailed directions on how to get there and the reasons to make a visit. This is being added to all the time, but if you know of a site that you cannot find here, please let me know through the contact form.

Although I have included the details of game lodges and tented camps, that does not mean I endorse them as this is a non-commercial site. I simply want visitors and residents to know what is available and, in any case, these places are an essential part of the typical visitor's wildlife experience of Zimbabwe.