The Motown Museum in Detroit has appointed Kenya LeNoir Messer as CEO, replacing Robin Terry, granddaughter of Motown Museum ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in the 1950s, a young British officer known as the district commissioner was ensconced in a charming seafront mansion from which he lorded it over the locals of Lamu, an island off the ...

Repatriating stolen artifacts to their rightful origins has been a complex journey, as the reclamation of these cultural entities had to be rigorously fought for. For Kenya, its memorials, vigango, ...

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SPRINGFIELD -- Tucked away in the Illinois State Museum are spiritual artifacts indigenous to Kenya, waiting to be returned to their original owners in the East African country. Thirty-eight vigango - ...

Motown Museum has named a new CEO to assume day-to-day leadership of the Detroit institution as it moves toward the ...

Chicago native Kenya LeNoir Messer arrives in the midst of a $75 million expansion at the Detroit cultural treasure.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — 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 ...