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List Of Museums In Kenya
This is a list of museums in Kenya. Many of these national and provincial museums are administered by the National Museums of Kenya (NMK). Museums * Abasuba Community Peace Museum, Mfangano Island. * Aeumbu Community Peace Museum, near Embu. * African Heritage Pan African Gallery, Nairobi. * African Heritage House, Mlolongo Machakos county * August 7th Memorial Park, Nairobi. * Akamba Community Peace Museum, near Machakos. * Bomas of Kenya * Community Museums of Kenya * Fort Jesus Museum, Mombasa * Garissa Museum * Gede National Monument * Hyrax Hill Site Museum * Jumba la Mtwana * Kabarnet Museum * Kapenguria Museum * Karen Blixen Museum, near Nairobi * Kariandusi Pre-Historic Site Museums * Kenya National Archives, Nairobi. * Kenyatta House * Kisumu Museum * Kitale Museum * Koobi Fora Pre-Historic Site * Krapf Memorial Museum * Lamu Museum * Lari Memorial Peace Museum, Kiambu District. * Loiyangalani Desert Museum * Malindi Museum * Meru Museum * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nairobi Museum Entrance 2
Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper had a population of 4,397,073 in the 2019 census, while the metropolitan area has a projected population in 2022 of 10.8 million. The city is commonly referred to as the Green City in the Sun. Nairobi was founded in 1899 by colonial authorities in British East Africa, as a rail depot on the Uganda - Kenya Railway.Roger S. Greenway, Timothy M. Monsma, ''Cities: missions' new frontier'', (Baker Book House: 1989), p.163. The town quickly grew to replace Mombasa as the capital of Kenya in 1907. After independence in 1963, Nairobi became the capital of the Republic of Kenya. During Kenya's colonial period, the city became a centre for the colony's coffee, tea and sisal industry. The city lies in the south central part of Kenya, at an elevati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Jesus Museum
Fort Jesus ( Portuguese: ''Forte Jesus de Mombaça, Spanish: Fuerte de Jesús'') is a fort located on Mombasa Island. Designed by Italian Giovanni Battista Cairati, it was built between 1593 and 1596 by order of King Felipe II of Castille, who also reigned as King Filipe I of Portugal and the Algarves, to guard the Old Port of Mombasa. Fort Jesus was the only fort maintained by the Portuguese on the Swahili coast, and is recognised as a testament to the first successful attempt by a Western power to establish influence over the Indian Ocean trade. Cairato, the designer of the fort, was inspired by Italian architect Pietro Cataneo, while the master builder was Gaspar Rodrigues. The fort was Cairato's last overseas work. Although the design of Fort Jesus is an example of Renaissance architecture, the masonry techniques, building materials and labour are believed to have been provided by the local Swahili people. The fort was built in the shape of a man (viewed from the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitale Museum
First opened in 1924 to the public, the Kitale Museum is the first domestic museum opened in Kenya. Originally known as the Stoneham Museum, which was named after Colonel Hugh Stoneham who had been a large contributor and collector of the artifacts held within the museum up until his death in 1966. It was later renamed the Kitale Museum when it was established by the National Museums of Kenya in 1974. The Kitale Museum used to be a privately owned museum prior to the death of Colonel Stoneham. After he died he willed funds as well as his entire collection, which included an extensive insect collection to the Kenyan government so that they could establish a national museum. In 1974 a new museum building was founded in Kitale on 5 acres of land making the Kitale Museum the first regional museum to become a part of the Kenya Museum Society. Kitale Museum is located in western Kenya in Trans-Nzoia County. It is exactly 380 kilometres northwest from the nation's capital, Nairobi. The m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kisumu Museum
The Kisumu Museum is a museum located in Kisumu, Kenya. Its exhibits focus on the natural and cultural history of Western Kenya. It features a collection of local flora and fauna, as well as a traditional Luo homestead. The museum was opened 1980. References See also *List of museums in Kenya
This is a list of museums in Kenya. Many of these national and provincial museums are administered by the National Museums of Kenya (NMK).
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Kenyatta House
Jomo Kenyatta (22 August 1978) was a Kenyan anti- colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978. He was the country's first indigenous head of government and played a significant role in the transformation of Kenya from a colony of the British Empire into an independent republic. Ideologically an African nationalist and conservative, he led the Kenya African National Union (KANU) party from 1961 until his death. Kenyatta was born to Kikuyu farmers in Kiambu, British East Africa. Educated at a mission school, he worked in various jobs before becoming politically engaged through the Kikuyu Central Association. In 1929, he travelled to London to lobby for Kikuyu land affairs. During the 1930s, he studied at Moscow's Communist University of the Toilers of the East, University College London, and the London School of Economics. In 1938, he published an anthropological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenya National Archives
Kenya National Archives and Documentation Services (KNADS) is situated at the edge of the central business district in downtown Nairobi along Moi Avenue next to Ambassadeur Hotel. The archives look out on the landmark Hilton Hotel, while on the rear side is Tom Mboya street. It was established in 1965. It holds 40,000 volumes. It was established by an Act of the Parliament of Kenya in 1965 and was placed under the office of the Vice President and the Minister of Home Affairs. It is currently under the office of the Vice-President and State Department for National Heritage and Culture. The Kenya National Archives building also houses the Murumbi Gallery which contains African artifacts that were collected in the 19th century. Murumbi Gallery The gallery is situated at the ground floor of the Kenya National Archives building and it is named after Joseph Murumbi, who was the second vice president of Kenya. It is currently the largest Pan-African art gallery in Africa and it con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kariandusi Pre-Historic Site Museums
Kariandus is a settlement in Nakuru County, Kenya. It is located 17.5 miles from Nakuru town and 7.5 miles from Gilgil town. Human presence in the area dates back to the stone age. The present inhabitants of Kariandusi settled in the area in early 1980s in the former Lord Egerton cole and Lord Delamere ranches. The area has a well established tourism industry, with Kariandusi prehistoric site, Lake Elementaita, Several Hot Springs and booming hospitality industry providing the economic growth for the area. Kariandusi is synonymous with the name used by the Maasai to refer to white paint traditionally used by Moran to paint their shields. References Sidney Langford Hinde Sidney Langford Hinde, (23 July 1863 – 18 October 1930) was a medical doctor and colonial administrator in East Africa. He was involved in the Congo–Arab War in the service of King Leopold II of Belgium. He is commemorated in the scientific na ...br>The last of the Masai Populated places in Rift Valley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Blixen Museum (Kenya)
The Karen Blixen Museum, located 10 km outside of Nairobi, Kenya, "at the foot of the Ngong Hills", is the former African home of Danish author Karen Blixen, famous for her 1937 book ''Out of Africa'' which chronicles life at the estate. History Located in what was then British East Africa, the bungalow-style house which is now the Karen Blixen Museum was built in 1912 by the Swedish engineer Åke Sjögren,National Museums of Kenya: Karen Blixen , accessed 22 February 2011. The house and its attached property were bought in 1917 by Karen Blixen and her husband, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke with the intention of operating a coffee plantation. After the Blixens separated in 1921, Karen Blixen continued to live at the house and run the plantation until she returned to Denmark 1931 for good. Her life here is chronicled in her most famous book, ''Out of Africa'', as well as in her book ''Shadows on the Grass''."Karen Blixen Museum" (in Kenya), Josephine Thangwa, National Museu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabarnet Museum
The Kabarnet Museum is a museum located in Kabarnet, Kenya. It features galleries relating to the Great Rift Valley and its peoples, including the Keiyo / Marakwet, Samburu, Pokot, Nandi and Kipsigis Kipsigis may refer to: *the Kipsigis people of Kenya *Kipsigis language Kipsigis (or Kipsikii, Kipsikiis) is part of the Kenyan Kalenjin dialect cluster, It is spoken mainly in Kericho and Bomet counties in Kenya. The Kipsigis people are the m .... See also * List of museums in Kenya References Museums in Kenya Great Rift Valley {{Africa-museum-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jumba La Mtwana
Jumba la Mtwana is the site of historical structures and archaeological relics on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya, lying close to the Mtwapa Creek, in Kilifi county, north of Mombasa Mombasa ( ; ) is a coastal city in southeastern Kenya along the Indian Ocean. It was the first capital of the British East Africa, before Nairobi was elevated to capital city status. It now serves as the capital of Mombasa County. The town is .... It dates back to the fourteenth century. Its features include a mosque by the sea. See also * Historic Swahili Settlements * Swahili architecture References External links * Swahili people Swahili city-states Swahili architecture History of Kenya Monuments and memorials in Kenya Archaeological sites in Kenya Mombasa Archaeological sites of Eastern Africa {{Kenya-museum-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyrax Hill Site Museum
The Hyrax Hill site was proclaimed a national monument in 1945 and opened to the public in 1965. This was as a result of startling discoveries of relics by Mrs. Selfe and subsequent archaeological excavations that were carried out by Dr. Mary Leakey in 1938 that revealed substantial findings in different areas of the site and levels of occupations. The late Mrs. Selfe was the owner of the property. The renovation of archaeology exhibit was made possible through the kind sponsorship of Kenya Museum Society and consultation of British Institute in Eastern Africa in collaboration with the National Museums of Kenya. The hill comprises particular importance due to the fact that it encompasses several phases of occupation; it also has a long history of archaeological investigation, which began in 1937 with Mary Leakey. History of excavations In 1937 Dr. Mary Leakey excavated Site I, and she discovered evidence of late Iron Age habitation consisting of a series of rough stone enclo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
