[2] The Society of Malawi started to campaign for a museum in the early 1950s.
[2] The current museum building was constructed in 1965 at Chichiri Hill in Blantyre, using funds from the Beit Trust and the Government of Malawi.
[2] Attempts to compensate for this have been made in post Banda collecting practices.
[2] Also outdoors is a Ndiwula hut in the syle of a Chewa rural homestead.
[2] The museum also displays the Machinga Meteorite which at the time of its fall was mistaken for a mozambique missile.