Karen Blixen Museum Tour

You are picked up from your Nairobi Hotel and tour the 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 Tour

Karen Blixen Museum is located 10 km from the Nairobi City Centre at the foot of the Ngong hills.

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 backdrop of Karen’s beloved Ngong Hills.

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 with Karen and her husband buying it in 1917 and it 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”, this plantation homestead is where that story began. Out of Africa is an Oscar winning film based on Karen’s autobiography.

They separated in 1921.

Karen continued to stay on the property and ran the plantation until she left Kenya.