The Livingstone Museum was established in 1934 as the David Livingstone Memorial Museum (and later the Rhodes-Livingstone Museum). It is the largest and the oldest museum in Zambia, located in Livingstone near Victoria Falls.
The Spanish colonial-style building was opened in 1951. Jock Millar, former mayor of Livingstone, requested that Harry Susman donate a ‘four-faced’ tower clock to the museum, but before it was unveiled in the museum, Susman died.
Following Independence in 1964, in 1966 the name of the Museum was changed to The Livingstone Museum.
The museum has exhibits of artefacts related to local history and prehistory, including photographs and musical instruments, and also holds possessions and memorabilia – including letters and journals – of David Livingstone, the explorer and missionary.
Details
- Designer: Gabriel Ellison
- Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd.
- Process: Photogravure
- Paper:
- Watermark: None
- Perf: 14.5 x 13.5
- Gum:
- Gum Arabic (original printing)
- Polyvinyl Alcohol (reprint)
- Cylinders: 1A (Copper), 1A (Sepia)
- Sheet: 10 x 10
- Quantity:
- Reprint:
- 22 April 1969
- 27 October 1970
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References
- Wikipedia: Livingstone Museum
- Zambia’s Postage Stamps: The Post-Federation Stamp Issues of Northern Rhodesia (1963-1971 – A. R. Drysdall, J. Case