Ngaren: The Museum of Humankind in The Great Rift Valley
The Museum of Humankind, The Great Rift Valley Building Project, Kenya Architecture Design
The Museum of Humankind in The Great Rift Valley
Public Building Development in Kenya, East Africa – design by Studio Libeskind Architects
14 May 2019
Ngaren
Design: Studio Libeskind
Location: The Great Rift Valley, Kenya, East Africa
Ngaren: The Museum of Humankind Launches Fundraising Campaign on May 13, 2019, at the Princeton Club, New York City
Dr. Richard Leakey announces the campaign for a new museum dedicated to the story of humans, Ngaren: The Museum of Humankind. The unprecedented project located in Kenya?s Rift Valley is designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, Studio Libeskind, the master plan architect of the World Trade Center site. Ngaren is the culmination of Dr. Leakey?s life?s work ?whose fossil discoveries have helped reveal how humans evolved. The Museum will be the first center of its kind to present research, discovery, and exploration of more than two million years of human history and the origins of our universe from evolution, biodiversity, overpopulation, to war, disease, and climate change.
?Ngaren is not just another museum, but a call to action,? says Dr. Richard Leakey, Founder. ?As we peer back through the fossil record, through layer upon layer of long extinct species, many of which thrived far longer that the human species is ever likely to do, we are reminded of our mortality as a species,? added Leakey.
Dr. Leakey commissioned Studio Libesk...
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