Ngaren: The Museum of Humankind - Amazing Views of Human History!

#NgarenMuseum #kenyanewmuseum #evolution #evolutionofhumankind #anightatthemuseum Kenya's🇰🇪 New Museum (Ngaren Museum of Humankind) Will Pay Homage to Our Ancient Heritage
Dr. Richard Leakey, a paleoanthropologist who discovered Turkana Boy(the most complete skeleton of early man) commissioned Ngaren in celebration of our ancestry. The museum's edifice will be constructed to resemble the early stone tools used by ancient man and is set to be designed by Daniel Libeskind's firm, Studio Libeskind, who previously redesigned the New York City World Trade Center and several other iconic buildings all over the world.
The Museum will be the first center of its kind to present research, discovery, and exploration of more than two million years of human history and the origins of our universe from evolution, biodiversity, overpopulation, to war, disease, and climate change.

"Maybe we don't want to exhibit the original [fossils] at all. Why don't we have a room you come in to wearing a 3D headset and sit quietly in the middle of a band of Homo erectus moving all around you? That's much more interesting than a skeleton of Turkana Boy behind glass," Leakey.
"The museum will be a place for discovery, wonder, and contemplation. Through the architecture and exhibitions, Ngaren will anchor all walks of life to Africa: the epicenter of human existence," said architect Daniel Libeskind. "I created a series of dramatic spaces within the museum that are architecturally dynamic and provocative, creating a unique context for the museum's exhibitions that does not pacify artifacts, but enhances and enlivens them," added Libeskind.

Being built in Kenya's Rift Valley,a region synonymous with human origins, is the culmination of Dr. Leakey's life's work –whose fossil discoveries have helped reveal how humans evolved. The museum will be the first of its kindoffering a life-changing experience, an educational day out, social interaction, and stimulation of all senses.

The team working on Ngaren hopes to break ground in 2022 and settle on an opening date sometime in 2024.