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Illinois State Museum returns nearly 40 sacred wooden artifacts to Kenya

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois State ...
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Kenya tourism: Maasai people and their first museum celebrating their customrs

KENYA’S FIRST PRIVATE MUSEUM DEDICATED TO THE MAASAI PEOPLE AND THEIR CUSTOMS Visitors to Kenya often seek additional information about the country’s history and cultures but apart from the National ...
Artnet

Artists and Scholars From Europe and Africa Are Collaborating to Help Kenya Reclaim Its Art From Foreign Museums

There are no museum objects on view at a major museum exhibition in Nairobi, only empty display cases. This poignant absence that pervades “Invisible Inventories,” which opens at the Nairobi National ...
Ahram Online

Egyptian artist reflects on Nile, feluccas at National Museum of Kenya

Egyptian artist Salma El-Sherif represented her country at the Open Art Exhibition at Nairobi’s National Museum of Kenya with her painting Wherever It Flows 2, a reflective depiction of the Nile that ...
Chicago Tribune

Illinois State Museum’s return of sacred statues to Kenya part of ongoing reexamination of cultural artifacts

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. “We ...
DBusiness

Motown Museum Names Kenya LiNoir Messer as New CEO

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

Illinois State Museum returns sacred wooden artifacts to Kenya

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 ...