Karen Blixen Museum

Karen Blixen Museum is located in the Karen area, merely 10 km outside of Nairobi, Kenya, near the Karen Country Club. The museum was set up in 1985 on the Blixen’s coffee farm at the foot of the Ngong Hills and still retains most of its original features.

The colonial farmhouse is indeed well preserved. Much of the original furniture is still preserved in its original state, including kitchen utensils, photographs, and original oil portraits painted by Ms. Blixen. A coffee-drying plant and small carriages are within the compound to ferry coffee to the market.

Briefly, Karen Blixen is the author of the famous book - Out of Africa - which was made into an Oscar Award-winning film in 1985. She lived in the then M’Bogani House from 1913 to 1931, and her pen name was Isak Dinesen. The house was built by a Swedish settler in 1911, and the Karen coffee company took it over in 1913 when Bror Blixen bought the Coffee Company for Karen just before the Karen Blixen Museum is the Swedo House that was built in 1912 as the residence for the Swedish manager at the coffee plantation.

Experienced and well-versed guides are available to take visitors through the house, with very detailed explanations about the history of Karen and her life. The museum is open to the public daily (9.30 am to 6 pm), including weekends and public holidays. Visitors are encouraged to be at the museum by 5.30 pm. A museum shop offers handicrafts, posters and postcards, the Movie ‘Out of Africa’, books, and other Kenyan souvenirs.

You may rent the for:

• Wedding receptions
• Corporate function and other events.