Karen Blixen Museum

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The Karen Blixen Museum refers to either of two museums: one in Denmark, the other in Kenya.

The Karen Blixen Museum in Denmark was the home of the author Karen Blixen (1885–1962), in Roskilde, Denmark. She spent much of her life in Africa, Kenya in particular, and wrote the 1937 book Out of Africa. The museum includes many books from Karen Blixen's library and also a number of her African portrait paintings. The museum was one of the first Danish museums to have a website dedicated to it.

The Karen Blixen Museum in Africa is near Nairobi, Kenya, and was her home "Mbogani" between 1917 and 1931, ^[1] at that time in the middle of a large coffee plantation. It was donated by the Danish government and opened in 1986, following the popularity of the 1985 film, Out of Africa.^[1] Nowadays the museum is situated in the suburb "Karen" (named after her) and you hardly find coffee there, but rich houses and a lot of horses.

This museum was not used for the filming of Out of Africa, the pictures were taken in her first farmhouse Mbagathi, where she lived between 1914 and 1917.