LUSAKA MUSEUM

This modest museum was opened in the 1980s. It is located in Downtown, in the middle of an unsafe area (take a cab there). The first floor, dedicated to modern and contemporary art, presents paintings, sculptures and ceramics by artists who have marked the national creation since independence in 1964 until today.
On the first floor, the ethnographic section is the most interesting. It provides explanations on the different aspects of Zambian culture by ethnic group for a more detailed analysis at the regional level: music and dance, crafts, witchcraft and initiation ceremonies, everything is detailed and broken down by tribe. A small archaeological section tells the story of "the Broken Hill Man", one of the ancestors of humanity whose skull was discovered in Kabwe, 140 km north of Lusaka, a Homo rhodesiensis, which would be a human subspecies, common ancestor ofHomo neanderthalensis and Homo erectus.
Finally, a gallery dedicated to history and politics traces the major events of the country since Independence and the lives of the country's leaders. This is the most interesting part of the museum, well supplied with detailed didactic and explanatory panels. Unfortunately, the museum is poorly maintained and its contents are rarely updated. If the visit remains instructive, it does not have the scale of the main museum of a capital, it is a pity. One appreciates in addition its small store of craft industry.