The National Museums of Kenya (NMK) has announced a 30-day window for the expiry of tickets purchased before the successful ...

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 ...

KENYA’S FIRST PRIVATE MUSEUM DEDICATED TO THE MAASAI PEOPLE AND THEIR CUSTOMS Visitors to Kenya often seek additional information about the country’s history and cultures but apart from the National ...

Discover what life is like for children in Kenya when the Creative Discovery Museum opens a new exhibit, "Kenya's Kids," on Saturday, Jan. 18. Families are invited to explore Kenya, a country both ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — 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 ...

Visitors to Kenya often seek additional information about the country’s history and cultures, but apart from the National Museum of Kenya in Nairobi, there seems little else available to answer ques ...

Nairobi — Not only are top scientists at the National Museums of Kenya leaving for greener pastures, but the cash-strapped institution finds itself unable to check the flow of historical artefacts out ...

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 ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Deep in the dusty, unlit corridors of Kenya’s national museum, locked away in a plain-looking cabinet, is one of mankind’s oldest relics: Turkana Boy, as he is known, the most ...

This time last year, Kris Helgen was climbing high. Helgen, curator of mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in Washington, DC, was about to lead a team of ...

A sacred statue stolen from a Kenyan farmer more than 20 years ago is on its way back to the farmer’s family after following a winding path from coastal Kenya to the collections of the Illinois State ...