National Museum celebrates 40th anniversary

The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Moeng Pheto officially launched the anniversary at the museum premises in Gaborone last week.  The commemoration is being held under the theme: Museum as Agents of Social Change and Development, which is also used by the International Council of Museums. The national museum was established in Gaborone in 1967 through an Act of Parliament as a non-profit making organisation under a board of trustees accountable to the Minister of Home Affairs. Three years later it was broadened and went through different changes until recently being moved to the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture.  

Speaking at Cresta Lodge during a press briefing last Friday, national museum director Gaogakwe Phorano said the celebrations' theme was appropriate for the museum because it enabled them to take stock.