Nairobi National Museum 

The museum has a good range of cultural and natural history exhibits. Aside from the exhibits, check out the life-sized fibreglass model of pachyderm celebrity Ahmed, the massive elephant who became a symbol of Kenya at the height of the 1980s poaching crisis, and who was placed under 24-hour guard by Jomo Kenyatta; he’s in the inner courtyard.
The museum’s permanent collection is divided into various categories; Ethnological exhibits, representing the 42 ethnic groups’ traditions and cultures. The Birds of East Africa exhibit, a huge gallery of at least 900 stuffed specimens. The Great Hall of Mammals , with dozens of stuffed mammals.The Cradle of Humankind exhibition, the highlight of which is the Hominid Skull Room – an extraordinary collection of skulls that describes itself as ‘the single most important collection of early human fossils in the world’. Within the museum’s grounds is a snake park which has some impressive snake species, including the puff adder, black mamba, African rock python and the Gaboon viper (which rarely bares its 4cm-long fangs, the longest in the world). There are also local fish species, lizards, turtles and some crocodiles. Entrance fee inclusive of snake park entrance