![]() It also hosts a new exhibition that tells Blixen’s story from the African perspective and is building a new visitor center. ![]() The museum conducts research and has collected oral history about Blixen from the descendants of her workers. to 6 p.m., including weekends and holidays, offering guided tours. ![]() The Karen Blixen Museum, 6 miles outside Nairobi, is open daily from 9:30 a.m. Biographer Linda Donelson writes, “Every evening before going to bed, she opened the south door of her house and looked toward Africa.” Twice nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature, Blixen died in Denmark at the age of 77. A millstone table there was Blixen’s favorite spot to sit and smoke each morning. The dining room where Blixen twice entertained the Prince of Wales has a fireplace and French doors opening to a small patio with views of the Ngong Hills. The house is roomy, with a library, dining room, foyer, lavatory, three bedrooms and kitchen. ![]() Other furnishings are of the period some, including a phonograph, cuckoo clock and dining table, are from the set of Out of Africa. A cabinet in the dining room held medicine used to treat natives on the farm. On it, she engraved small brass plates with his initials. Though Blixen sold most of her furniture to pay creditors, a few pieces have been recovered and donated to the museum, including a bookcase built for Finch Hatton's books with money he gave her. ![]()
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