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

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Rungstedlund museum

Karen Blixen Museum Kenya

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Rungstedlund museum

The ''Karen Blixen Museum'' in Denmark is situated at Rungstedlund, the home of the author Karen Blixen (1885–1962), in Rungsted, Denmark (about 24 km, 15 miles, north of Copenhagen). 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.
Karen Blixen lived most of her life at the family estate Rungstedlund, which was acquired by her father in 1879, north of Copenhagen (Denmark's capital). The oldest parts of the estate date back to 1680, and it had been operated both as an inn and as a farm. Most of Blixen's writing took place in Ewald's Room, named after author Johannes Ewald. The property is managed by the Rungstedlund Foundation, founded by Blixen and her siblings. The property opened to the public as a museum in 1991.
The Rungstedlund museum was one of the first Danish museums to have a website dedicated to it.
Rungstedlund map coordinates: 55º 53.000' N and 12º 32.600' E.
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Karen Blixen Museum Kenya

The ''Karen Blixen Museum'' in Africa is near Nairobi, Kenya, and was her home "Mbogani" between 1917 and 1931,

"Karen Blixen Museum" (in Kenya), Josephine Thangwa,
National Museums of Kenya, webpage:
Museums-Kenya-KBlixen.

at that time in the middle of a large coffee plantation of about 5000 acres. It was donated by the Danish government and opened in 1986, following the popularity of the 1985 movie, ''Out of Africa (film)''. Nowadays the museum is situated in the suburb "Karen" 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'', as the pictures were taken in her first farmhouse, Mbagathi, nearby, where she lived between 1914 and 1917.
Kenya museum map coordinates: 1º 21.110' S and 36º 42.750' E.

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"Karen Blixen - Isak Dinesen Links" (karenblixen.com), 2007,
webpage: KBlixen-links.

External links

★ Museum website in English

★ Museum website in Danish

★ Karen Blixen Museum, Kenya