Curators at the Illinois State Museum say they don’t know exactly how 38 wooden sculptures made their way from Kenya to Springfield. But the leading theory is that the move wasn’t aboveboard. “We ...

There are no museum objects on view at a major museum exhibition in Nairobi, only empty display cases. This poignant absence that pervades “Invisible Inventories,” which opens at the Nairobi National ...

Kenya’s first-ever maritime museum is expected to be operational by the end of the year. The museum, a joint project of the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) and the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), will ...

A collection of gourds representing all tribes in Kenya at the Nairobi National Museum. [Esther Jeruto, Standard] At the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi sits a spectacular centerpiece forming the ...

Records pertaining to some of the most important examples of our earliest human and pre-human ancestors will be hosted on Amazon and accessible to all through a ‘virtual museum’. The East African ...

SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois State Museum has returned 37 wooden memorial statues, known as vigango, to the National Museums of Kenya for repatriation to Mijikenda communities. These statues are ...

Studio Libeskind has revealed its design for a vertical monument to humanity just outside of greater Nairobi in Kenya. Ngaren: The Museum of Humankind, commissioned by paleoanthropologist Dr. Richard ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - "I wonder if I'll see Meryl Streep here," I think as I first behold the squatty, sprawling gray fieldstone bungalow where once lived Karen Blixen, the real-life heroine of Out of ...

The Illinois State Museum have returned nearly 40 sacred artifacts to Kenya so they can go back to their rightful owners. Museum officials said in a statement Wednesday that they have completed ...

Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Musalia Mudavadi has commissioned Kenya's first jigger museum and archive centre in Murang'a County, describing it as a ...

But Leakey’s tenure has not been without controversy. This past winter, amidst an uproar over public comments he made criticizing the African nation’s government for its lack of effectiveness in ...