This article analyzes national monuments, museums, and Cultural Heritage Sites in Zimbabwe for their symbolic and economic value as politicized and contested landscapes. It argues that museums and national legacy sites are developed as public places that camouflage but also reveal social memory in the process of state identity formation. Developments at cultural and heritage sites include a dual mandate to assert a new African national identity and attract tourism. I argue that the visual, cultural, and political narratives used to (re)inscribe a traditional African past on the landscape evoke conflicting emotional and intellectual responses among varied audiences. Monument planning and restoration of museums and Cultural Heritage Sites must balance the needs of multiple constituencies to avoid conflicts that can arise if development plans do not align with tourist desires or respect a community's use of a space or understanding of the past. Therefore, the ability of heritage and cultural sites to serve as engines of development for the tourist economy is questionable, but as public platforms for the expression of indigenous histories and cultures, they provide significant social and cultural value to local groups.

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津巴布韦的国家博物馆和纪念碑：建设文化和赚钱

本文分析津巴布韦的国家古迹、博物馆和文化遗产作为政治化和有争议的景观的象征和经济价值。它认为博物馆和国家遗产遗址被发展为公共场所，在国家身份形成过程中伪装但也揭示社会记忆。文化和遗产地的开发包括维护新的非洲国家身份和吸引旅游业的双重任务。我认为，用于（重新）在景观上（重新）铭刻传统非洲过去的视觉、文化和政治叙事在不同的观众中引起了相互冲突的情感和智力反应。博物馆和文化遗产地的纪念碑规划和修复必须平衡多个选区的需求，以避免如果发展计划不符合旅游者的愿望或不尊重社区对空间的使用或对过去的理解而可能出现的冲突。因此，遗产和文化遗址作为旅游经济发展引擎的能力值得怀疑，但作为表达土著历史和文化的公共平台，它们为当地群体提供了重要的社会和文化价值。