Choma Museum and Crafts

The Choma Museum and Craft Centre was established in 1988. The institution is a development project combining economic and cultural objectives. It is a regional institution whose objective is to economically empower the community through production and sale of their crafts and to preserve and present the heritage of the southern region.

The museum displays the cultural heritage of the Tonga tribe of the Southern province of Zambia. It houses many traditional artifacts including beadwork, musical instruments, spears, clay figurines and jeweler. The Museum's crafts projects stimulate production of local crafts such as baskets, beadwork, carving, etc. It saves to preserve the local traditional skills and providing an alternative form of income to the people of Southern Province of Zambia. It also has a collection cultural and historical artifacts. It includes the material culture of the Tonga people.

Choma Museum and Crafts Centre is a community museum which partially is supported financially by the central Government through a monthly grant. This grant is not sufficient to enable the institution give the service to the community's expectations.

This means that the Museum relies on the goodwill of its community.