The Nairobi National Museum in Kenya is home to million-year-old fossils, an unparalleled collection of insects, tens of thousands of bones and a fossilized skeleton crucial to our understanding of humanity. Despite its significance, the museum’s roughly 10 millions specimens are at risk as years of limited resources, mismanagement and corruption have left it in a state of dilapidation and decay.
WSJ visits the museum and investigates how an international coalition of scientists is racing to save the museum and secure the millions needed to overhaul it in order to restore the institution and its vast collection to a state more befitting its immense importance to humanity.
Chapters:
0:00 The Nairobi National Museum
1:24 Hominid Vault and Turkana Boy
2:46 Paleontology backroom: issues with the museum
5:25 The Leakey family
7:05 Kenya’s Lake Turkana region
9:35 The rest of the museum
12:03 Plans to reform the museum
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