On the ground floor is a public gallery containing the Murumbi collection of furniture, ethnography, antiques, weapons and domestic artifacts. Joseph Murumbi, cofounder of the African Heritage House, was Kenya's most famous collector, and his acquisitions of books, original manuscripts (from explorers such as Livingstone), and historical papers and photographs are displayed one floor up. Monday-Friday 8:30 am-4:30 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9 am-3 pm. Free. Moi Avenue and Tom Mboya Street (across from the Hilton Hotel), Nairobi. Phone 228-959. http://www.kenyarchives.go.ke.
