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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nairobi — For the past 40 years, the early man has been immobile at the Nairobi Museum gallery showcasing the Darwinian past. It was inevitable he would inspire evolution, leading to a complete ...

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 ...

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 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 ...