Curators at the Illinois State Museum say they don’t know exactly how 38 wooden sculptures made their way from Kenya to Springfield. But the leading theory is that the move wasn’t aboveboard.

Other leaders who have been reappointed include Ilrasayon Neepe, Linnet Mirehane, and Rose Auma Omamo, who have been ...

For guidance, Dr. Morgan said, the museum had looked to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, which was already years into the process of returning about 30 vigango in its own collection.

Gikungu, the Kenyan museum director, visited Washington as well, meeting with top Smithsonian scientists to see what could be if only her museum had Smithsonian money.

Besides Kenya’s history, the museum also takes you through a journey of human ancestors. Explore the snake park within the museum and the beautiful botanical garden. 4.

The old museum’s fanciest and most valuable artefact, a side-blown horn known as a siwa—carved with intricate beauty out of an immense elephant tusk—has been dispatched to Nairobi, Kenya’s ...

However, the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) came up with the idea to establish the museum at a maritime building built between 1913 and 1915 and proposed it in 1984 and again in 1992.

To try and identify it, the Kenyan team turned to Simon and his colleagues for help, loaning the specimen to the Natural History Museum in London. To confirm what the toad was, it needed to be ...