About This Museum
Nyumbani is a Swahili word. It means "home," but it also means something closer to at home — a state of being, not just a location. This museum is an attempt to build that state in a place where things can be kept without pressure.
I built this after a long job hunt. Not as a portfolio — I already have one of those — but as the opposite of one. A place where nothing needs to perform. Where a photograph can exist because the light was right, not because it demonstrates a skill. Where a book reflection can trail off mid-thought.
The Rooms
The museum is organised into four rooms, each a different mode of attention:
- The Gallery — photographs, sketches, and things made with hands. Art does not need to be finished to live here.
- The Library — books read, passages underlined, thoughts that arrived while reading and needed somewhere to go.
- The Conservatory — music listened to, guitar practiced, the silence between notes that is also music.
- The Archive — essays. On people, on feelings, on the texture of living in Nairobi in your twenties.
If something here reaches you — a photograph, a sentence, a chord progression — that is enough. You do not need to tell me. But if you want to, you can.