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African Wild Dogs number have significantly declined
Join Mr. Teeku Patel, Professional Photographer & Safari Guide and learn more about Africa’s most ENDANGERED PREDATOR

Wednesday, 21 August, 2013
Louis Leakey Auditorium
Nairobi National Museum
Refreshments 6.15pm Starts 7:00 pm
Donation: Ksh 400 KMS member
Ksh 500 Guest
Ksh 200 Student

Pay Bill No: 400800, followed by account No: 6571570019
Contact: 0724 – 255 299, 2339158 or info@kenyamuseumsociety.org

Kenya Museum Society, Q’damah Kip Productions & Nairobi National Museum Art Club
Present:

Kids got Talent!

Kiddies Day Outing
Program – we will meet at the NMK Courtyard @ 9.45 am
1. Know your Museum – Visit to the galleries, I spy game & treasure hunt
2. Drawing & Dancing – out in the botanic garden
3. Have some snacks
Training by:
Q’damah Walter Lagat – Lead actor in Something Necessary film
What to bring
Kids should be in comfortable clothes and shoes
Pack some picnic lunch/ snacks for them (optional)

Saturday 3 August 2013, 10.00am – 12pm

Nairobi National Museum

Age 4 – 9 years
Cost: KMS member kid – Ksh 500
Non member kid – Ksh 700

Contact: 0724 – 255 299, 2339158 or
info@kenyamuseumsociety.org

We guarantee you a spectacular & brilliant outcome of your child’s creativeness!!

Lake Magadi and Lake Natron
July 26-28, 2013

Escape the cold in Nairobi. Visit these two surreal soda lakes in the Rift Valley. The lakes are famous for birdlife, including flamingoes. There is also some game. The area has very dramatic landscapes and is hot and dry. Lake Natron is famous for its mirages and views of the volcano Ole Lengai.
We shall stay at the charming Losiijo Camp. Set along the Ewaso Nyiro river, it is shaded under giant fig trees. It is set in a conservancy area, run by the Maasai. The conservancy has some game and prolific birdlife.
Programme
Friday- Depart from Nairobi early. We shall go across the causeway on Lake Magadi and have a picnic beside the shores of the lake. We then head towards Ngurumann Escarrpment and finally to our camp. Afternoon walk in the area. Dinner.
Saturday- After breakfast drive through amazing landscapes to Lake Natron on the Tanzanian border. Dramatic views of the volcano Ole Lengai. Picnic at Lake Natron. Return to camp late afternoon. Dinner.
Sunday- Early morning game drive. Depart for Nairobi after breakfast. There will be a choice of returning direct to Nairobi or doing a round of Lake Magadi. Picnic lunch at the Museum pre-historic site at Olorgesaille.
Included- Accommodation, 2 dinners, 2 breakfasts and picnic lunch on Sunday.
Not included- Picnic lunch for Friday and Saturday, transport and community conservancy charge. They charge 700ksh per day.
Only 8 places.
Cost- 11,350 per person sharing.
Book and pay now to avoid disappointment.

Contact:
0724 255 299, 2339158 or
info@kenyamuseumsociety.org
narinder.heyer@gmail.com

Kenya Museum Society & Wildlife Direct invite you for:
Battle for the Elephants Film screening

A groundbreaking National Geographic film, aimed at exposing the criminal network behind supply and demand for ivory
‘Battle for the Elephants’ further explores the brutal slaughter of African elephants for their tusks, fueled largely by China
Followed by
Dr. Paula Kahumbu
speaking on
‘THE CRISIS FACING ELEPHANTS IN KENYA AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO STOP THE KILLINGS’

Saturday, 15 June, 2013
Louis Leakey Auditorium
Nairobi National Museum
Refreshments 2.15pm Starts 3:00 pm
Donation: Ksh 400 KMS & FoNNaP member
Ksh 500 Guest
Ksh 200 Citizen
The film is 1 hour long and the talk will be 20 minutes
Pay Bill No: 400800, followed by account No: 6571570019
Contact: 0724 – 255 299, 2339158 or info@kenyamuseumsociety.org

Friday, June 7, 2013, 9.30 am – 12 pm

ICIPE is an international scientific research institute, headquartered in Nairobi, that works towards improving lives and livelihoods of people in Africa. It was founded in 1970 by a renowned Kenyan entomologist, Thomas Odhiambo, with strong encouragement from Carl Djerassi, a professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.

The center’s main objective is; Research and development of alternative and environmentally friendly pest and vector management strategies, conservation and use of the rich insect biodiversity found in Africa among others. It is the only international center in sub-Saharan Africa working primarily on arthropods, while focusing on sustainable development using human health as the basis and the environment as the foundation for sustainability.

Activities:
Guided tours to;
• Beekeeping Museum
The museum showcases newly developed technologies of hiving stingless bees as well as the honey bees.
• Honey Quality Control Laboratory
In the quality control laboratory, extensive tests are carried out to test any impurities in honey including pesticides and antibiotics and to determine the quality of honey.
• Royal Jelly Laboratory
In this lab, royal jelly (a honey bee secretion that is used in the nutrition of larvae, as well as adult queens) which is harvested from the apiaries in the field is processed for consumption as a food supplement.
• Instrumental Insemination Laboratory
This lab undertakes instrumental insemination, which is a proven and reliable method of controlled mating, providing an essential tool for honey bee research, bee breeding and stock maintenance.
• Honey processing and Value addition laboratory
Processing of honey (honey bees and stingless bees)
Processing of beeswax to candles
• Silkworm harvesting
Charges:
KMS members – Adults –Ksh 500
Non members – Adults –Ksh 700
Students – Ksh 300
Children below 10 years –FREE
Meet at KMS office at 9.30 am
Depart to ICIPE at 9.45 pm
Note: Due to security arrangements at the entrance, please book and confirm attendance by 4th June.

Contact: 0724 255 299, 2339158 or info@kenyamuseumsociety.org