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Checkpoint (CP)
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last updated: 05 Oct 2016
General Information
National Museums of Kenya (NMK)
Checkpoint Responsibilities
The National Museums of Kenya (NMK) is a state corporation established by an Act of Parliament, the National Museums and Heritage Act, 2006 no. 6 of 2006. NMK is a multi-disciplinary institution whose role is to collect, preserve, study, document and present Kenya’s past and present cultural and natural heritage. 
Management of cultural heritage, natural history collections and GRs obtained from monuments and heritage sites.
Providing obligations of user and provider in MAT and collection export permit
Issues of Access to cultural and natural heritage, particularly monuments, antiquities as defined in this act are liable to challenges in law enforcement and to infringement on access rights of other users.
  • National / Federal
Authority/ies to receive courtesy copies of checkpoint communiqués
The contacts indicated below will receive email copies of checkpoint communiqués containing the information collected or received and published from this checkpoint.
All Competent National Authorities designated for Kenya have been selected to automatically receive checkpoint communiqués by email published from this checkpoint.
- Competent National Authority: | ABSCH-CNA-KE-208058-1 This document has been updated. This is not the latest published version. Click here to view the latest version of the record.
Competent National Authority:
National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) ()
Popo Road,South C, off Mombasa Road P.O.BOX 67839-00200, Nairobi.
Nairobi, Nairobi
00200, Kenya
Phone: +254-020-2101370, 020-2183718, 020-2307281, 020-2103696,
Fax: +(254)-020-6008997,
No additional authorities have been selected to receive the automatic email copies of checkpoint communiqués published from this checkpoint.
Additional Information
National Museums and Heritage act, 2006And the National Museums and Heritage (Antiquities dealers) (Licensing) Rules, 2009
The entire Act, consolidates the law relating to national museums and heritage; provides for the establishment control, management and development of national museums and the identification, protection, conservation and transmission of the cultural and natural heritage of Kenya; ..; and for connected purposes. Part V on searches and discoveries, sections  27 exploration licenses, 28 conditions and forms of exploration licenses, 29 entry on land under exploration licence, 31 restriction on moving objects and 32 offences Part VI section 34 (a-d) control of access etc to protected area
77 amends EMCA Section 38 to (jj) take into account and record all monuments and protected areas declared or deemed to have been declared by the Minister under this Act. Similarly, other related legislation have been amended to protect monuments, antiquities and similarly protected objects.
Also, requires foreign investors in heritage transactions to comply with rules relating to investment in Kenya.