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.

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 Wednesday that they have completed tra… ...

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.

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.

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.

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

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.

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