Royal Archives & Museum – Lesotho's Royal Heritage

Visit Our Museum & Information Resource Centre

We offer tourists and visitors from within and outside Lesotho who be will attracted to this unique Centre clearly on its own merit, but also as part of education on the history of the Basotho monarchy the Royal Village of Matsieng and some heritage sites in the vicinity’ the word will has been inserted between be and attracted.

Welcome To Royal Archives & Museum

The Royal Archives, Museum and Information Resource Centre is a registered non-governmental organization which was established in March 2008 by the Royal family and is administered on its behalf by professionals in various fields of academia. The home of the Royal Archives, Museum and Information Resource Centre is an old office of the late Paramount Chieftainess ‘Mants’ebo Seeiso and King Moshoeshoe II.

News

The Board of Trustees and staff of Royal Archives and Museum celebrates with Her Majesty this month of June, on her 45th birthday and would like to wish Her Majesty Queen ‘Masenate Mohato Seeiso a blessed birthday. O re holele ‘M’e oa rona!

International Visitors-All visitors across the globe are welcome to learn more about Basotho
Research Students– Rich information for reasearch purposes
General Public – Know your history and heritage

Call us to find out more about our archives services and open times for visitations and research.

OUR VALUES

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to preserve systematically and in a usable manner, the pre and post independence Royal Family records as found in Matsieng and other places. We will process, classify, catalogue, index and describe the available collection of the Royal Family archival materials with a view to making them accessible to all beneficiaries in Lesotho and in the Diaspora. Furthermore, we hope to develop means of formally augmenting the present collection with free deposits of copies being generated by relevant sources locally, regionally and internationally. In addition, we will identify, collect, process and make accessible all museum pieces and artefacts having a bearing on the history of the royal family. In the final analysis, doing all the above will create jobs and sustainable incomes for the people of Matsieng and thus add value to the ward-ship of the Royal Village.

OUR VISSION

To be a useful resource centre that contributes to Lesotho’s sustainable development through the promotion of her rich royal history and culture.

OUR SERVICES

Archival Search
Library
Guided tours to places of interest (The Traditional Royal Residence, The historic Royal buildings, Morena Letsie I’s Heritage Site, Dinosaur footprints, Morena Lerotholi’s Heritage Site in Makeneng, a tour of Makhoarane, The Royal Cemetery at St. Louis Catholic Church and more
Photocopying and Lamination

OUR PROMISE

We promise tourists and visitors from within and outside Lesotho who be will attracted to this unique center clearly on its own merit, but also as part of education on the history of the Basotho Monarchy, the Royal Village of Matsieng and some heritage sites in the vicinity’ the word will has been inserted between be and attracted.

OUR VALUES

Royal Archives, Museum and Information Center’s value is to develop means of formally augmenting the present collection with free deposits of copies being generated by relevant sources locally, regionally and internationally. In addition, we will identify, collect, process and make accessible all museum pieces and artefacts having a bearing on the history of the royal family. In the final analysis, doing all the above will create jobs and sustainable incomes for the people of Matsieng and thus add value to the ward-ship of the Royal Village.