Sign in. Zimbabwe Currency: Zimbabwe Dollar. Capital: Harare. Area: , km 2. Removed from Unnamed collection. Glasgow Better Adventure. Situated just 22 kilometres outside of Bulawayo, Khame was the capital of the Torwa state between and around , after the capital at Great Zimbabwe in Masvingo was abandoned. It was a trading centre, as attested by the artefacts discovered here and the ruins are not places of defence but were prestige buildings designed to demonstrate Torwa wealth.
Human evidence at the site can be traced back to the Early Stone Age, approximately 0. FiveLands Travel. With its stunning displays and valuable research, collections are the best museum in Southern Africa and rank fourth in size among the museums of Africa. It is an impressive circular building with nine public display galleries, a lecture hall with a seating capacity of people, a cafeteria, and eight research departments with substantial study collections and ongoing research in the following disciplines: Arachnology and Invertebrates; Entomology; Ornithology; Mammology; Herpetology; Ichthyology; Geology and Paleontology; Archaeology and Monuments.
Museums LearningCenters ActivitiesforKids. Sam Zoon. Matobo Hills Huge granite masses β seamed, split, shaped and sculptured by time and the elements β form an array of giant whalebacks and castellated kopjes that cover square kilometres of Matabeleland South Province. ParksandGardens Adventure NatureViews. Angie Bell Skip the Line Travel. Old Bulawayo The story of the Ndebele from when they are forced out from present-day South Africa by a coalition of Afrikaners, Griquas and Zulu to the establishment of modern-day Bulawayo can appear confusing.
This was in keeping with tribal custom; the royal towns of Matabele kings were never intended to be permanent and whenever a King died, the capital moved and the old royal town was burned. ParksandGardens HistoricalSites. Douslin House where the Gallery is housed in more than years today. As custodians of a growing Zimbabwean heritage, Art Gallery is tasked with the creative and intellectual discipline to select, to nurture and commend outstanding works of visual art, to select and display pivotal works, to generate and improve upon existing talent, to train and develop artistic skills, to educate, to empower, to mediate, and mostly to celebrate.
Freed from some of the influences and concerns, which dominate other provinces in Zimbabwe, the unique thrust of the National Gallery in Bulawayo is its desire to dissolve barriers between art and its audience, to establish a consistent dialogue and intimacy.
