Society of Malawi, Historical and Scientific

The society aims to promote interest in literary, historical and scientific matters, discover and record facts and information about Malawi.

[1] The patron of the library is always the president of Malawi, the current one being [[Lazarus Chakwera] The society publishes a journal twice yearly.

[2] It also has a reference library and archives located at the historic Mandala House, Malawi's oldest standing building in Blantyre, built in 1882.

The society also runs a transport museum, located in the Heritage Centre in Limbe on land granted by the Malawi Railways with the proviso that the history of transport in Malawi be preserved with emphasis on the railways' role in opening up Nyasaland, a landlocked country, to the sea.

[3] Exhibits at the museum cover the period from 1867 to 1996 and include fully captioned photographs, artifacts, and other items of interest.