Kitale Museum Entry Charges

In this article, we will look at the Entrance Fees for Kitale Museum. Kitale Museum is located about 1 kilometre from Kitale town centre in Trans Nzoia county of the former Rift Valley province. In December 1974, the museum, at the time known as the National Museum of Western Kenya, Kitale, was opened to the public. It was the first domestic museum to be developed in Kenya and the first regional museum in the Kenya Museum Society

The museum houses items collected from Kenyan tribes such as the Luhya, Maasai, and Turkana. The museum displays traditional Kenyan weaponry, utensils, and native musical instruments used by these tribes. A nature trail located behind the museum is used to conserve various rare plants and animals. Visitors to the museum can get a taste of what it’s like to be inside a real Kenyan rainforest. The museum also houses Nile crocodiles, leopards, tortoises, and various poisonous snakes.

Kitale Museum History

It was originally known as the Stoneham Museum, after the amateur naturalist, Col. Hugh Stoneham, founded the first Stoneham Museum, a private museum in 1926. He had a collection of insects, other animals and books collected from 1894-1966. The museum was later bequeathed to the National Museums of Kenya. He willed his collections as well as funds for a new museum, building.

The new museum building was erected on five acres of land on the outskirts of Kitale town. The curator at the time of opening was Mrs Linda Donley as the first curator. In 1983, the Kitale Museum started a centre called Olof Palme Memorial Agroforestry to promote agroforestry in West Pokot.

Kitale Museum Entrance Fees

Kitale Museum Contacts

Phone: 0735 803308