The Society of Malawi, Historical and Scientific is a not-for-profit organisation established in 1946, as the Nyasaland Society. It changed its name after

Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast ...

gained independence in 1964. The society aims to promote interest in literary, historical and scientific matters, discover and record facts and information about Malawi. It also acquires books relating to Malawi. The patron of the library is always the president of Malawi, the current one being

Arthur Peter Mutharika Arthur Peter Mutharika (born 18 July 1940) is a Malawian politician and lawyer who was President of Malawi from May 2014 to June 2020. Mutharika has worked in the field of international justice, specialising in international economic law, inter ...

Programmes

The society publishes a journal twice yearly. The journal, called ''The Society of Malawi Journal'' since 1965, and formerly ''The Nyasaland Journal'', is edited by

David Stuart-Mogg David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

. Stuart-Mogg is an amateur historian and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. It also has a reference library and archives located at the historic Mandala House, Malawi's oldest standing building in

Blantyre Blantyre () is Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, and its second largest city, with an enumerated 800,264 inhabitants . It is sometimes referred to as the commercial and industrial capital of Malawi as opposed to the political capital, L ...

, built in 1882. The library is open to both the public and society members.

The Transport Museum at the Heritage Centre, Blantyre

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

References

External links

''The Nyasaland Journal''
on JSTOR
''The Society of Malawi Journal''
on JSTOR Blantyre History of Malawi Organisations based in Malawi {{Malawi-stub