Kenya is archeologically known as home to mankind’s earliest ancestors, and the Nairobi National Museum is a great place to start exploring Kenya’s cultural riches.
The National Museum is located at the Museum Hill, approximately 10 minutes drive from the Nairobi city center, making it easily accessible from any part of the city.
The Museum was initiated in 1910 by the then East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society [currently the East African Natural History Society (EANHS)]. The group consisted mainly of colonial settlers and naturalists who needed a place to keep and preserve their collections of various specimens. But through the time, the Nairobi Museum has been transformed into a magnificent piece of architecture that puts it in competition with other world-class museums. The main exhibition includes Human origins, Mammalian Radiation, Ecology of Kenya, Natural Diversity and Geology.
Another major attraction to the museum is the Nairobi snake park, with the exception of
-Invertebrates like Giant Snails, Baboon Spider, Mombasa Train Millipede, Crayfish, Freshwater Prawns -Vertebrates like Fishes both Marine and Freshwater, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals.
The snake park also serves as a rescue and rehabilitation center for reptiles (abandoned, confiscated, illegal collection), dissemination of information on aquarium fishes and reptiles as well as specialized talks on the same. To date, Snake Park has continued assisting the city residents of Nairobi in rescuing their residential areas by removing spotted house snakes and as well as giving advice on how to reduce possible snakebites within their homesteads. Snake identification service is also provided.
