page_title: Cultural & Museum Centre Karonga
section_title: Collections
hierarchical_section_title: Cultural & Museum Centre Karonga / Collections
caption_attribution_description: English: Malawisaurus (Malawi lizard) at the Karonga Museum
context_page_description: The Cultural & Museum Centre Karonga, commonly called Karonga Museum, is a cultural centre and museum in Karonga District, northern Malawi.
context_section_description: The collection, preservation and display of the artefacts is undertaken by the Department of Antiquities, under the Department of Culture, in the Ministry of Information, Tourism, and Culture in conjunction with the Uraha Foundation. The emphasis of the Cultural Exhibition component is on community participation, local traditional and community leaders were urged to assist in assembling the different collections for exhibition.
  The Museum has a central exhibition which is dominated by the 130-million-year-old fossil of the Malawisaurus, which was discovered 45 km south from the centre site.
caption: Malawisaurus (Malawi lizard) on display at the Cultural Museum Centre Karonga
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