National Museums of Kenya

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The National Museums of Kenya ( National Museums of Kenya, NMK) are an amalgamation of more than 30 regional museums and other culturally significant locations in Kenya . The association was founded in 2006 by a law of the National Assembly of Kenya ("National Museums and Heritage Act, 2006"). The national museums explore, manage and showcase Kenya's national cultural heritage. Headquarters is in Nairobi .

The Nairobi National Museum (formerly: Kenya National Museum, KNM), in which u. a. numerous hominine fossil finds are kept, for example the Nariokotome boy (archive number KNM-WT 15000), the type specimens of Homo rudolfensis (KNM-ER 1470) and Kenyanthropus (KNM-WT 40000) as well as the so-called Black Skull (KNM-WT 17000) from Paranthropus aethiopicus .

The Nairobi National Museum, founded in 1910, is now also the headquarters of the National Museums of Kenya. In addition to the show museum and an attached botanical garden , it consists of four research departments: zoology , center for biodiversity , East African herbarium (with the largest botanical collection in Africa) and geosciences . There is also an administrative department for the museum and for the national association.

The Institute Of Primate Research , which was founded in the early 1960s by Louis Leakey as the Tigoni Primate Research Center , also belongs to the association . Leakey studied the behavior of primates here , with the aim of gaining clues about the evolution of human behavior. As part of this research, the numerous publications by Jane Goodall ( chimpanzees ), Dian Fossey ( gorillas ) and Birutė Galdikas ( orangutans ) emerged. Today in this institute u. a. conducted biomedical research to combat tropical infectious diseases.

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  1. ^ National Museums and Heritage Act, 2006 ( Memento of March 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Caribou sana. The Kenyan National Museum. In: Senckenberg Research Institute (Hrsg.): Senckenberg: Nature - Research - Museum. Volume 146, No. 7–8 / 2016, p. 216
  3. ^ Institute of Primate Research: A short History. ( Memento of July 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) On: primateresearch.org , status: 2009
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