The National Monuments of Zimbabwe are protected and promoted in accordance with the National Museums and Monuments Act 1972.
This law replaced the
colonial-era Monuments and Relics Act 1936, which in turn replaced the 1902 Ancient Monuments Protection Ordinance and 1912 Bushmen Relics Ordinance.
The
National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) is the body responsible for maintaining the Archaeological Survey, the national inventory of monuments and sites.
In April 2000 there were approximately 14,000 entries on the Archaeological Survey, of which 118 were National Monuments (including natural, cultural, and mixed sites).
79 National Monuments had been declared under the old system by 1954.
By
1980
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, the register had grown to over 3,000 sites and 169 declared monuments.
National Monuments
The National Monuments register includes the following sites:
See also
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History of Zimbabwe
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Culture of Zimbabwe
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List of heritage registers
This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and human-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In ma ...
References
Culture of Zimbabwe
Heritage registers in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
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Lists of tourist attractions in Zimbabwe
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