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    RESEARCH    

   
   

   
       
       
       
       
    The museum has a big research collection acquired from researches conducted in the country over a long period of time. However some of Leakey’s collection from Olduvai and Laetoli are still at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi. Materials from on-going research at Olduvai are at the site and some of them at Natural History Museum, Arusha. Otherwise, the Museum and House of Culture has:-      
         
         
         
     

•  Most of the Paleontological Collection from Laetoli from Mary Leakey’s work

•  Collection from Wembere Manonga Paleontological Expedition (WMPE) (Harrison et al) since 1990 – 1996 and 2006

•  Collection from Eyasi Plateau – Laetoli Paleontological Expedition 1998 – 2005 (Harrison et al)

•  Collection from Studies of the Southeastern Coast, Coastal and hinterland of Tanzania, e.g. Neville Chittick, F. Chami, Kweka and others.

•  Unique ethnographic and photographic records collected from late 1890’s to the 20th century AD.

     
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
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