Experts' Choice Award Nairobi National Museum
What the experts agree on
Nairobi's National Museum impresses with strong prehistoric and cultural exhibits, particularly its Leakey collection and rock art displays, set within attractive grounds featuring sculptures and gardens worth exploring beyond the main halls.
“On Museum Hill off Chiromo Road, this interesting museum has good reproduction rock art displays and excellent prehistory exhibits of the archaeological discoveries of Richard and Mary Leakey.”
– Fodor's
Frommer's "Prized among the Rift Valley fossils displayed here is the 1.6-million-year-old "Turkana Boy," the most complete early hominid fossil in existence." Full review
Lonely PlanetTop choice
"Kenya’s wonderful National Museum, housed in an imposing building amid lush, leafy grounds just outside the centre, has a good range of cultural and natural-history exhibits." Full review
Afar Magazine "At the National Museum in Nairobi, if you push past the Snake Park and the herb garden, you'll find a lovely winding brick pathway with wooden and stone sculptures overlooking a river." Full review
National Geographic "Renowned cultural institutions like the Nairobi National Museum house an impressive collection of human ancestor fossils dating back millions of years"
