Miti Museum
A living seed bank at the foot of Mt Kenya.
Miti Museum is a 4.3-acre living tree museum and eco-centre in Naro Moru, Nyeri County — home to more than 180 rare and indigenous tree species, a thriving Miyawaki forest, and a working demonstration of regenerative living.
The museum is a working eco-centre as much as an archive. Visitors can join guided tours, learn to build with cob, camp out for the night in our solar-powered, earth-brick cottage, and take part in hands-on training in regenerative agriculture, water harvesting, beekeeping and composting. We host farmer groups, school tours, corporate wellness days and open training events throughout the year, and we’re working towards a long-term goal of a five-million-seed bank to strengthen Kenya’s climate resilience.
Established in 2020 on the slopes of Mt Kenya, Miti Museum exists to do what a botanical garden and a seed bank rarely do together: protect biodiversity for the long term while opening the door to anyone curious enough to walk through it.
As you wander the grounds you’ll find each of our 180+ tree and plant species labelled with its own story — common name, scientific name, traditional uses and the role it plays in the ecosystem — alongside a dense Miyawaki forest pocket, an indigenous tree nursery, an agroforestry and organic farm, kitchen gardens, a working apiary, rabbit and poultry enclosures, a fish pond, and buildings constructed using traditional cob techniques.
WHAT YOU CAN DO AT MITI MUSEUM
- Guided tree museum & Miyawaki forest tour
- Agroforestry, herb garden and tree nursery walk
- Cob building demonstrations and full-day training workshops
- Kitchen garden, composting and vermicomposting demonstrations
- Beekeeping, water harvesting and fish-pond tours
- Farm shop — seedlings, worms for vermicomposting, honey and merchandise
- Overnight stays in our solar-powered cob cottage, minutes from Mt Kenya National Park and Ol Pejeta
KEY STATS TO FEATURE
- 180+ rare and indigenous tree species conserved on site (139 species fully catalogued for research)
- 4.3 acres at the foot of Mt Kenya
- Goal: 1,000 visitors by December 2026, and Botanical Garden status registration underway
Other related programmes
Miti Schools Programme
Environmental education, tree nurseries and orchards in Kenyan schools.
Miti Kitchen Gardens
Regenerative food gardens that feed school feeding programmes
Miyawaki Forests
Dense, fast-growing native micro-forests on school and community land
Be part of a lasting change
Fund the next forest, garden or classroom.
Every gift goes directly to a specific, budgeted need — a water tank, a fence, a season of seedlings, a forest. Choose a school below, or fund what's needed most.