Kariandusi Museum

Kariandusi Museum site displays excavated fossils and stone tools that date back to Acheulian history.  This site provides information on the history of humankind biological and cultural evolution.  The Kariandusi Archeological Site is amongst the first discoveries of Lower Paleolithic sites in East Africa and is possibly the first Acheulian site to have been found in Situ in East Africa.

Dr. Leakey, a renowned paleontologist, believed that this was a factory site of the Acheulian period. He made this conclusion after numerous collections of specimens were found lying in the Kariandusi riverbed. This living site of the hand-axe man, was discovered in 1928.It is believed that a rise in the Lake level drove pre-historic men from their lake-side home and buried all the tools and weapons which they left behind in a hurry.

The site rests on the Nakuru-Elementaita basin which occupies the width of the Rift valley, flanked by Menengai crater on the north and the volcanic pile of Mount Eburru, on the south.

Additonal Tourist Attractions within the Kiriandusi Archeological site include: Camp Site,  Nature Trail,  Museum, Picnic Site, Diatomite Mining Site, Caves and Monumental Church Building

Kariandusi Museum Pre-historic site is under the management of National Museusms of Kenya