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Nairobi Railway Museum Photoshoot Charges
If you are interested in having a photoshoot at the Nairobi Railway Museum, you will have to pay a fee for this.
On top of regular entry fees, you will be charged an extra Ksh. 1,000 to do a one-person photoshoot and Ksh. 10,000 for a group photoshoot.
These are not official Nairobi Railway Museum photoshoot charges but they are the current in-practice fees.
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Museum of Kenya Entry Fee/National Museum Entry Fee
Railway Museum Nairobi Opening Hours
The Nairobi Railway Museum is open every day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Photos from the Nairobi Railway Museum
A Tortoise Calculator at the Railway Museum Nairobi
A mid-20th-century Facit electro-mechanical calculator housed at the Kenya Railway Museum in Nairobi.
This Swedish-made calculator could multiply a 9-digit number by an 8-digit number and give a 13-digit answer.
It could also add, subtract, and divide.
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East African Photos: Letter Scales, Kenya Railway Museum
Do you remember going to the post office and having the post office staff weigh letters with something like this? I do and it utterly fascinated me as a child.
This old letter scale is housed in the Kenya Railway Museum in Nairobi.
The writing on the paper reads: “A letter scale with brass weights of half, one, two, four, and eight ounces. By adding all the weights it was possible to weigh envelopes up to one pound or 500 grammes.”
Most letter scales were mechanical until the 1990s.
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Brunsviga Manual Calculator, Train Museum Nairobi
This is not an old cash register but a turn-of-the-century Brunsviga MANUAL calculator housed at the Kenya Railway Museum in Nairobi.
Unlike earlier adding machines, this calculator could also perform multiplication. This was done by entering the multiplicand and then turning the crank “multiplier” times (or vice-versa). Aren’t you glad you were born in the era that you were?
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Nairobi Pictures: The Railways Museum Nairobi
The Nairobi Railway Museum, located adjacent to the Nairobi Railway Station, is a treasure trove of colonial and post-independence East African artifacts.
Spending the afternoon here brought to life so many stories my parents had told me about life in their teens and twenties. If you are in Nairobi and have never been, I urge you to check it out. It’s a lot of fun and you even get to climb into old trains.
Vintage Camera, Nairobi Railways Museum
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Parts of an early 20th-century camera at the Nairobi Railway Museum.
A Former Tanganyika Railways Train at the Kenya Railways Museum
A former Tanganyika Railways train (Tanganyika is the former name of mainland Tanzania) used to shoot the award-winning movie “Out of Africa“. This train is currently housed at the Nairobi Railway Museum in Kenya.
The sign reads: Tanganyika Railways No. 301/ Built in 1923 by Beyer Peacock & Co, Ltd in Manchester. Retired in 1970’s as East African Railways 2301. It was used to shoot the movie (Out of Africa).
Kenya Railways Train 3205, Nairobi Railway Museum
An old Kenya Railways John Fowler & Co. train head made in 1950 housed at the Nairobi Railway Museum in Kenya.
Nairobi Railway Museum
A long time ago, I wrote a post asking readers to tell me what their favourite East African museum was.
A reader named David answered: the Nairobi Railway Museum.
Having lived in Nairobi for almost a decade (depending on how one’s counting), I was surprised at his answer because I’d never even heard of this museum.
On my last trip to Nairobi, I made a point to check it out and my, oh my, was it a blast!
If you are a museum buff and ever get a chance to check it out, please do. I trust you’ll enjoy it.
(If you would like to let me know about your favourite East African museum, just go here and leave me a comment. As you see, I take your feedback seriously. 🙂 )
Photo Credit: Nairobi Railway Museum