press kit - The International Council of Museums

Kenya
National Museums of Kenya
History of Kenya (16-22 May 2011)
Workshop, educational programme.
The History of Kenya exhibition at Nairobi National Museum traces historical activities to Kenya before Kenya.
The main dates go back to around 1850. Museum will be offering programmes to young children to sensitize
them on the History of their nation and to ignite memories of the evolution of their young nation. Children will
also be ask to narrate their stories about memories they have about Kenya's history.
On 19.05.2011, there will be a workshop in which historians will be reviewing storyline on the forthcoming
exhibition on Kenya's founding father, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. Other NMK museums across the country will be
having various programmes for the public including Lake Turkana cultural festival at Desert museum,
Loiyangalani
Contact: Daniel Kibet arap Mitei (Head of Public Programmes)
Phone: +254 20 3742161
Email: dkmitei@museums.or.ke
Address : Museum Hill Road, P.O Box 40658 – 100 Nairobi, Kenya
Website : www.museums.or.ke
Nigeria
National Museum Ataoja's Palace (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
Lecture and schools’ quiz competition (2-day schedule)
Performance, Workshop, Educational programme. Secondary schools quiz competition.
Public lecture on why and how museums help us to preserve memories of the past. Quiz competition among
students (encourage them to preserve in perpetual memory our history, events, sites, artifacts and cultural
heritage.)
Contact: Mr. Olakunle Makinde
Telephone: +2348064823964/0823088204
E-mail: makyinkus@hotmail.com
Address: 230001/pmb 4376 Osogbo, Nigeria
Senegal
ICOM Senegal
Cultural and scientific days (9am – 1pm, 3pm – 6pm and 9pm – 12am)
Visit, performance, educational programme.
ICOM Senegal organises each year on IMD scientific days that follow an essay competition for lower–sixth- and
upper-sixth form students. Fifth-form students have been targeted for this year’s theme. A month before the
days that will take place after the one organised by each museum, one museum receives all the museum
professionals of Senegal and assimilated institutions and the 10 or 15 primed students during a weekend for
discussions with a dinner debate, visits of sites and also a cultural evening. Moreover, authorities will be
invited to share these moments and to enhance the prize-giving ceremony with their presence. The prizes are
generally offered by partners in each town that contains a museum. This year, since the armed forces museum
has a bus museum which relates the history of servicemen, the bus museum will move to the host town so as
to enable students and other visitors to visit the Senegalese and African military history.
Contact: Abdoulaye Toure (President)
Phone: +221774369086
E-mail : layetoure@hotmail.com
Address: Musée des forces armées, 75 boulevard de la République – Dakar, Senegal
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