Karen Blixen Museum Tour
You are picked up from your Nairobi Hotel and start this wonderful excursion visiting this expansive farmhouse and grounds.
Here Karen Blixen established a coffee plantation and spent time with her lover, the English hunter, Denys Finch-Hatton.
Karen Blixen Museum is located 10 km from the Nairobi City Centre at the foot of the Ngong hills. The house was built in 1912.
Set in the serene suburb of Nairobi, the Karen Blixen Museum not only provides the most comprehensive insight into the person of Karen Blixen, but also offers a fantastic space for personal reflection in our nature trail, against a back drop of Karen’s beloved Ngong Hills.
Karen Blixen Museum Tour
The Karen Blixen Museum was once the centre piece of a farm at the foot of the Ngong Hills owned by Danish Author Karen and her Swedish Husband, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke.
It gained international acclaim with the release of the movie ‘Out of Africa’, an Oscar winning film based on Karen’s autobiography by the same title.
Built in 1912 by Swedish Engineer Ake Sjogren, Karen and her husband bought the house in 1917 and it became the farm house for their 6,000-acre farm, of which 600 acres was used for coffee farming.
Their marriage failed after eight years and in 1921 the Baron moved on and left the running of the farm to Karen.
Made famous by the hit movie “Out of Africa” starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, this plantation homestead is where that story began. Out of Africa is an Oscar winning film based on Karen’s autobiography.
Karen Blixen and her husband Baron Bror von Blixen bought the land surrounding it in 1917 to set up a coffee plantation. They separated in 1921.
Karen continued to stay on the property and ran the plantation until she left Kenya.
The house changed hands several times before it was bought by the Danish government and presented to the Kenya government in 1964, as an independence gift.
Karen Blixen Museum Tour
Karen Blixen Museum Tour
In 1985, the Museums of Kenya acquired the house and opened a museum in 1986.
Karen’s literary works are displayed here. There are also on display relics from her life as well as props from the legendary movie and details of Kenya’s colonial history.
Karen Blixen Museum Tour