A Very Strange Catch!
This new
interactive exhibition opened to the public on the 31st March
2005 at the Nairobi Museum; it was conceived and developed by
the VVOB-NMK Interactive Public Programmes project. Dubbed 'A
Very Strange Catch' the exhibition focuses on a coelacanth
(a fish once thought to have been extinct) caught in Malindi,
Kenya in April 2001. |
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President of Kenya Daniel Arap Moi declared the strange creature a
national heritage in August 2001. The exhibition offers museum visitors
a once in a lifetime chance to interact with a creature whose species
has been around for the last 400 million years, with only a handful
cases of its sighting in recorded history.
Following the closure of the Nairobi Museum for its ambitious restructuring programme
(2005-2007), the exhibition will be on display at the new Malindi Museum from December 2005. |
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