Bulawayo's Museum Quarter & Colonial Heritage Architecture
Explore the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe — one of Africa's finest — then walk Bulawayo's wide colonial avenues lined with century-old jacaranda trees
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The Museum of Natural History
Africa's second largest natural history collection with an extraordinary mammal hall, bird gallery and the skeleton of a blue whale mounted outside
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The Railway Museum's steam engines
A fascinating open-air museum with colonial-era steam locomotives including the engine that pulled Cecil Rhodes' funeral train in 1902
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Bulawayo City Hall Square
The 1940 City Hall anchors a grand civic square — Bulawayo's avenues are among the widest in Africa, built so oxcarts could turn on the street
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Main Street Heritage Walk
Walk the wide main street lined with Art Deco and colonial buildings from the 1930s-1950s that give Bulawayo a distinct architectural identity
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Mzilikazi Art and Craft Center
The city's premier craft center named after the Ndebele king sells excellent Ndebele beads, stone sculptures and handwoven baskets
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Bulawayo Theater Evening
Bulawayo has a stronger theater tradition than Harare — the repertory theater has operated continuously since the 1940s in its original building