Kisumu City Tours Kisumu Museum Day Trip

Kisumu City Tours Kisumu Museum Day Trip is a 3 hour tour to the Kisumu Museum located in Kisumu town along the Kisumu – Kericho highway.

This is a guided tour of the Kisumu Museum. We pick you up from your hotel/ residence in Kisumu to the museum for the 3 hour tour and drop you back to your hotel or residence. Kisumu Museum contains numerous pavilions with some of the pavilions containing live animals.

The first pavilion contains numerous aquariums with a wide variety of fish from Lake Victoria, along with explanatory posters. The second pavilion contains 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. There is a pavilion showing 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 of the 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.

A visit to the museum is not complete without viewing the 300 year old giant tortoise imported to Kenya from the Seychelles in 1930. Kisumu Museum also exhibits galleries with the material culture of the peoples of the Western Rift valley and Nyanza Province.

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.

Unique to the Kisumu Museum are its natural history exhibits in the form of a fresh-water aquarium, and outdoor snake park and tortoise pens. Beyond the exhibit gallery and Snake Park is a life-size replica of a traditional Luo homestead.

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.

Ber-gi-dala consists of the home, granaries and livestock corrals of an imaginary Luo man as well as the homes of each of his three wives, and his eldest son.

Through signs and taped programs in both Luo and English, the exhibition also explains the origins of the Luo people, their migration to western Kenya, traditional healing plants, and the process of establishing a new home.

The homestead, which represents the houses of the three wives and the eldest wife’s first son, and includes livestock pens and a granary, give foreign visitors a unique insight into a traditional Luo home.

Notes
* Opening Hours: Monday to Sunday: 0830 Hours to 0530 Hours. (All year round including public holidays and weekends)
* This tour could be combined with the Impala Park Tour, Kisumu Market and Bus Park Tour, Kisumu City Walking Tours or Lake Victoria Boating Excursion. Kindly request on [email protected]

Kisumu City Tours Kisumu Museum Day Trip Rates Includes:
* Kisumu Museum Tour
* Professional English speaking guides
* All entry fees, guide fee, service charge and taxes
* Pickup from your hotel in Kisumu City and drop-off to your hotel in Kisumu

Kisumu City Tours Kisumu Museum Day Trip Rates Do Not Include:
* Drinks
* Tips or gratuity
* Travelers insurance
* Communication charges
* Visas, international airfares and airport taxes; meals
* Lunch or dinner in town (option and extra charges direct)
* Sightseeing not included in the package; optional activities
* Personal expenses such as transfers to/ from the airport (supplement airport transfer cost applies for tours starting from the airport)

Booking & Reservations for Kisumu City Tours Kisumu Museum Day Trip Contacts;
Booking Office Tel: + 254 718-179-967
Mobile : + 254 721-242-711
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.africanspicesafaris.com