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 ...

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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 ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - "I wonder if I'll see Meryl Streep here," I think as I first behold the squatty, sprawling gray fieldstone bungalow where once lived Karen Blixen, the real-life heroine of Out of ...

Studio Libeskind has revealed its design for a vertical monument to humanity just outside of greater Nairobi in Kenya. Ngaren: The Museum of Humankind, commissioned by paleoanthropologist Dr. Richard ...

The second Joint International Scientific Conferencehas officially started, bringing together local and international researchers,scholars, and policymakers to address global ecological ...

A collection of gourds representing all tribes in Kenya at the Nairobi National Museum. [Esther Jeruto, Standard] At the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi sits a spectacular centerpiece forming the ...

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — 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 ...