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Considered one of the top 5 activities when exploring Nairobi in Kenya, the Karen Blixen Museum takes visitors back in time in the history of Kenya, on which Karen Blixen's memoir "Out of Africa" was based.

Located 30 kilometres from Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, the Karen Blixen Museum is situated on a farm at the base of the Ngong Hills. The museum takes its name from its Danish owner Karen Blixen and stands as a marvellous reflection of what Kenya was like many years ago.

Karen Blixen, who married Baron Bror van Blixen Fincke, first gained international attention in 1985 when the Oscar winning movie 'Out of Africa', starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep was released.

The film, 'Out of Africa' is based on Karen's autobiography with the same title and tells the story of a Danish baroness who owns a plantation in 20th century colonial Kenya and centres around her passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter, Denys Finch Hatton.

Karen and her husband purchased the house and the surrounding 4500 acre farm in 1917 and used 600 acres of it for coffee farming. The coffee farm did not do well, suffering several disasters including a fire and continuous bad harvests. In 1921, after the end of their marriage, the Baron left the area and Karen remained to run the farm as a single woman on a financially troubled farm.

After the death of her lover and a failed farm, Karen returned to Denmark in 1931, where she became a successful author. The farm and house was bought by Remy Marin, who subdivided the land into 20 acre parcels for development.

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