Kisumu museum buildings are set to look like a Luo homestead, replicating the culture of the area with the museums main gallery facing the entrance just like a typical Luo homestead.
Outside of the museum you’ll find a traditional Luo homestead so that you can see how the people of the region used to live; a thatched mud hut for the husband in the middle, and separate houses surrounding it for wives numbers one, two, and three to all live in.
Exhibits include cultural history, and also provides educational services to schools in its neighborhood. This includes traditional clothing and adornment, basketry, fishing gear, agricultural tools and hunting weaponry. Also on display are several dioramas, including a lion, De Brazza monkey, and the largest Nile Perch ever caught in Kenya.
Kisumu Museum was opened to the public in 1980. The museum stores and disseminates information on cultural and scientific issues with emphasis on Western Kenya. The museum contains numerous pavilions with some of the pavilions containing:
- Live animals
- Numerous aquaria with a wide variety of fish from lake Victoria, along with explanatory posters
- Terrarium containing mambas, spitting cobras, puff adders and other venomous Kenyan snakes.
- Additionally, outdoors, the museum has a few additional exhibits, including a snake pit and a crocodile container.
- Other pavilions show weaponry, jewelry, farm tools and other artifacts made by various people from Nyanza province. Additionally, there are exhibits of stuffed animals, birds and fish.
- One pavilion houses the prehistoric TARA rock art, which was moved for its own protection to the museum after it was defaced by graffiti in its original location.
- Beyond the exhibit gallery and Snake Park is a life-size replica of a traditional Luo homestead. This is the museum’s most important and largest exhibition is the UNESCO-sponsored Ber-Gi-Dala. This is a full-scale recreation of a traditional Luo homestead.
On this tour, you will visit Kisumu Museum.
Inclusions
- Transport to Kisumu Museum. This tour originates from Kisumu.
- Museum Fees
- Tour Guide
- A bottle of water
Exclusions
- Transport to and from Kisumu
- Lunch
Price
- Kenyan Local Tourist Kshs 2000
- International Tourist Kshs 5000