Kenya National Archives

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Genre : Cultural centre, Resource center
Status : Public administration
Principal country concerned : Column : History/society, Heritage
P.O Box 49210-00100 Nairobi
Kenya
Tel. : +254-02-228959
Fax : +25420228020
http://www.kenyarchives.go.ke
Contact by email

The Kenya National Archives and Documentation Service was established by an Act of the Parliament of Kenya in 1965 and was placed under the office of the Vice President and the Minister of Home Affairs. It is currently under the office of the Vice-President and Ministry of State for National Heritage and Culture. It also holds over 40,000 volumes of documents. The Kenya National Archives building also houses the Murumbi Gallery which contains African artifacts that were collected in the 19th century.

The gallery is situated at the ground floor of the Kenya National Archives building and it is named after Joseph Murumbi, who was the second vice president of Kenya. It is currently the largest Pan-African art gallery in Africa and it contains ancient art collections from different regions and communities of Africa. The collected artifacts were acquired by the government of Kenya after a concessionary arrangement was agreed upon with Joseph Murumbi, who had initially turned down several huge offers to buy his collections by overseas bidders.

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