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[[File:Old Bus, Chichiri Museum.jpg|thumb|Old Europeans only bus at Chichiri Museum.]]
The '''Chichiri Museum''', also known as the '''Museum of Malawi''', is a historical and cultural museum located in [[Blantyre, Malawi|Blantyre]], [[Malawi]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.africom.museum/museums/malawi-chichiri.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061024074809/http://www.africom.museum/museums/malawi-chichiri.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=24 October 2006 | title=Museum of Malawi, Chichiri | publisher=[[International Council of African Museums]] | accessdate=8 August 2014 }}</ref> Strictly Museum of Malawi refers to a group of five museums but Chichiri Museum (which is one of them) uses the name due to the breadth of its exhibits.<ref name=Lusaka>{{cite journal |last1=Lusaka |first1=Mwayi |date=4 Jan 2023 |title=Curating the nation: Collections, ethnographic representations and heritage production at Museum of Malawi |journal=Cogent Arts & Humanities |volume=10 |doi=10.1080/23311983.2022.2160577 |s2cid=255631526 |doi-access=free }} {{open access}}</ref>
==History==
The Society of Malawi started to campaign for a museum in the early 1950s.<ref name=Lusaka /> The Museums of Malawi, initially known as the '''Nyasaland Museum''', was established through legislation in May 1957 via Museum Ordinance No. 201.<ref name=Lusaka /> The initial museum was housed at Mandala house in Blantyre.<ref name=Lusaka />
The current museum building was constructed in 1965 at [[Chichiri Hill]] in Blantyre, using funds from the [[Beit Trust]] and the Government of Malawi.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.museum.mw/index.php/facilities/chichiri-museum | title=Chichiri museum | publisher=The Museum of Malawi | accessdate=8 August 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809171331/http://www.museum.mw/index.php/facilities/chichiri-museum | archive-date=9 August 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The cost of construction was 21,000 [[Malawian pound]]s.<ref name=Lusaka /> The museum was formally opened by [[Kamuzu Banda]] on 29 June 1966.<ref name=Lusaka /> Under the presidency of Kamuzu Banda collecting was in some cases limited to avoid any risk of upsetting the government with the result that little collecting was done from groups associated with rebels.<ref name=Lusaka /> Attempts to compensate for this have been made in post Banda collecting practices.<ref name=Lusaka />
In 2009 the [[Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi]] supplied a hydroelectic exhibit that sits in the outdoor section of the museum.<ref name=Lusaka />
==Collection==
The museum has a transport collection displayed outdoors that includes a steam engine, a fire engine and a Europeans only bus.<ref name=Lusaka /> Also outdoors is a Ndiwula hut in the syle of a [[Chewa people|Chewa]] rural homestead.<ref name=Lusaka /> It was built in 1966 under the instructions of President Kamuzu Banda.<ref name=Lusaka />
The museum also displays the Machinga Meteorite which at the time of its fall was mistaken for a mozambique missile.<ref name=Lusaka /> The meteorite weighs 93.2Kg and in 1984 was classified as a shocked [[L chondrite|L6c chondrite]].<ref name=Graham >{{cite journal |last1=Graham |first1=A. L |last2=Crow |first2=M. J |last3=Chatupa |first3=J. C|last4=Mndala |first4=A. T |date=30 June 1984 |title=The Machinga, Malawi, meteorite - A recent L6 fall |url=https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1984Metic..19...85G |journal=Meteoritics |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=85–88 |doi=10.1111/j.1945-5100.1984.tb00029.x |bibcode=1984Metic..19...85G |access-date=28 January 2023 }}</ref> In 1990 a reanalysis classified it as a L6d.<ref name=Koeberl>{{cite journal |last1=Koeberl |first1=Christian |last2=Reimold |first2=Wolf Uwe |last3=Horsch |first3=Hanna E|last4=Merkle |first4=Roland K. W |title= New Mineralogical and Chemical Data on the Machinga (L6) Chondrite, Malawi |url=https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1990Metic..25...23K |journal=Meteoritics |year=1990 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=23–26 |doi=10.1111/j.1945-5100.1990.tb00967.x |bibcode=1990Metic..25...23K |access-date=28 January 2023}}</ref>
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Trains, Blantyre Chichiri Museum.jpg|Early trains of Malawi
File:Fire brigade, Blantyre Chichiri Museum.jpg|Old fire brigade truck
▲File:Meteorite, Blantyre Chichiri Museum.jpg|Meteorite
File:Currency, Blantyre Chichiri Museum.jpg|Early currency used in Malawi
File:Malawi kwacha notes, Blantyre Chichiri Museum.jpg|Malawi kwacha notes
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File:Jewelry exhibit, Blantyre Chichiri Museum.jpg|Jewelry exhibit
File:Magical earrings, Blantyre Chichiri Museum.jpg|Magical earrings
File:Bangles, Blantyre Chichiri Museum.jpg
File:Ivory nose plug and earrings, Blantyre Chichiri Museum.jpg|Ivory nose plug and earrings
File:Traditional beads, Blantyre Chichiri Museum.jpg|Traditional beads
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File:Blantyre Chichiri Museum Livingstone-3.jpg|In front of the entrance to the temporary David Livingstone exhibit (2014)
File:Blantyre Chichiri Museum Livingstone-2.jpg|Map of Livingstone's travels at temporary exhibit (2014)
</gallery>
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==External links==
{{commons category|Chichiri Museum}}
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