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When
we
hear
about
galleries
or
art
museums
we
go
back
in
time
in
Ashmolean
museum
which
was
the
first
ever
and
the
oldest
museum
in
the
world
🌏and
you
can
imagine
the
amount
of
history
heritage
that
is
diplayed
in
Ashmolean,
i
bet
it
goes
back
to
B.
C💭💭.
There
are
other
museums
like
the
Louvre
and
the
Smithsonian
that
came
at
the
early
centuries
💬at
different
parts
of
the
world🌍.
In
Africa,
Kenya🇰🇪
precisely
had
the
absence
of
organised
documents📒📖📚📔📘📝
and
objects
that
would
have
had
a
place
to
be
stored🏛
at
the
early
centuries.
The
perspective
of
that
era
was
bringing
a
different
narrative
based
on
the
people
👦👧👨👩👲👳👮👷💂🕵.But
today
we
can
happily
celebrate
👏part
of
our
heritage
thanks
to
Nairobi
Gallery
.The
building
itself
is
an
iconic
and
distinctive
building
which
is
also
referred
as
point
zero
In
the
C.B.D..
Which
has
a
history
of
it's
own.
It
was
built
in
1913
and
started
as
a
civil
service
building
which
by
then
was
referred
to
as
hatches
🐣👼,matches
💑👫
and
dispatches
🏳🏳🖋.Then
later
in
1963
it
became
the
first
Nairobi
Provincial
Commissioner's👮
Office🏠
for
the
natives
.Today
this
building
serves
as
a
museum
and
a
national
monument.
Some
of
them
call
it
the
National
Gallery,
But
to
most
it's
called
The
Joseph
Murumbi's
gallery
because
3/4
of
the
items
and
objects
were
collected
by
Joseph
Murumbi
during
his
exile
in
the
UK
and
each
time
he
got
foreign
minister's
assignments
and
duties
in
different
countries
in
the
world.
Everything
he
had
collected
brought
meaning
and
understanding
😇during
the
slave
era
and
colonialism
in
Africa.
And
when
you
visit
this
particular
museum
you
get
to
learn
more
and
be
able
to
get
a
sense
of
community
and
places
by
celebrating
and
enjoying
a
collection
heritage
of
our
own..
For
the
history
and
art
lovers
this
is
a
place
to
call
home
😊and
have
the
best
experience
of
how
we
transitioned
economically
in
terms
of
currencies
....
Then
our
fashion.....the
type
of
jewelry
we
wear....
Our
interior
deco
...(for
example
the
objects
he
(joseph
murumbi)
had
for
his
office
and
living
room)
...also
the
books
for
how
the
maumau
fought
and
last
but
not
least
the
materials
they
used
in
war
during
their
war
era.
As
much
as
somethings
will
remain
in
the
past
some
materials
most
precisely
on
fashion
the
kikoi's
,vitenge's
and
jewelry
are
still
used
on
our
day
to
day
lives...
It's
just
that
we
modify
them
to
fit
the
fashion
sense
of
today...
But
basically
nothing
much
has
really
changed
meaning
we
are
still
portraying
part
of
the
heritage
and
this
place
just
relives
it
day
by
day....
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