- TURY.CLUB
- Tourist Objects
- Kenya
- Nairobi
- Kenya National Archive
The Kenyan National Archive is located in the central part of Nairobi, in the business district, on Moi Street, not far from the city’s best hotels. The archive was created in 1953 in the building of the old Bank of India. It contains more than 40 thousand volumes of documentation. The Kenyan National Archives is a government agency that houses the repository of historical documents of Kenya. An excursion to the archive is much more interesting than it might seem. On the ground floor of the building is a gallery named after Joseph Murumbi, who was Kenya's second vice president. The gallery features African artifacts dating back to the 19th century, photographs and images of Mzia Kenyatta and former President Moe. Photographs of the president taken during his world tour. The walls of the gallery are hung with paintings and carpets. Among the paintings there are a lot of paintings by Joseph Murumbi, who sold his private collection in 1979. He collected the collection with his wife, an Englishwoman. The collection includes a variety of masks, spears, shields, fabrics, figurines from all over Africa, household items and luxuries, photographs of tribes, stories about their customs, a huge collection of books and stamps, paintings by famous colonial artists, stories about the local way of life in Swahili. You can also see weapons, a variety of lamps, crafts, antique bronze busts of the first and second presidents of Kenya. Currently, the Murumbi Gallery is the largest art gallery in Africa, which houses ancient art collections of Pan-African art from various communities and regions of Africa.
