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CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION

Cheplelachbai Secondary School started in the year 2010 as an harambee school by the community
and ACK Church as the sponsor. Later it was taken over as a government school. The school is in
Nandi county, Nandi East sub-county, Nandi Hills constituency in lessos ward. It is situated 45km
along Eldoret –Lessos road and 3km from Lessos town .The school current population comprises of
175 students 5TSC teachers, 6BOM teachers and 5Non- teaching staff. It has produce great alumnis.

1.2 PROJECT IDENTIFICATION

The following are projects that I can undertake in history and government:

i) Setting up a museum
ii) A clip chart on evolution of man
iii) A clip chart on human rights

I recommend doing a project on setting up a museum because it cuts across all the subjects hence a
learner can gain knowledge from the museum

1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT

The project will help the students to:-


1. To provide a model for better learning of the lesson on social, political and economic
organization of different communities.
2. To enhance skills training for students and promote enhanced understanding capacity and
building a strong memory through the use of diorama by creating a real picture.
3. To assess the overall satisfaction of visitors who visit the Museum.

4. To determine the demographic characteristics of students visiting the Museum.

1.4 JUSTIFICATION

The project will benefit the following stakeholders in the following ways:

1. Students
Enhances knowledge, appreciation, respect and sustainable utilization of the resources
2. Teachers
Generally speaking, museums collect objects of significance that comply with their mission
statement for conservation and display.

Makes them to be proud of their school.

3. Community
Collecting, preserving, studying, documenting and presenting Kenya’s past and present cultural
and natural heritage.

1.5 Justification and Significance of the Study

This study is important because Museums are very important heritage and cultural

products yet they very little attention in the tourism industry. It assessed the products

offered and interpretation thereof to establish if museums are contributing to its low

number of visitors. The findings of this study provide information on the school Museum

products and services that other regional museums could use to develop new strategies

that would lead to a deliberate change and improvement in services delivery and

interpretation. The study provides an in-depth analysis of the existing facilities, products

and tourist environment of a typical Kenyan Museum, and suggests ways of improving,

adding new products and tourist support services to meet the diverse needs of tourists.

This proposal will be a reference for students, academicians and researchers undertaking

similar or related studies.

1.6 Scope of the Study

The study focused on investigating facility utilization of school museums by local tourists

and the challenges faced by these museums to meet the changing needs of tourists.
1.7 Assumptions of the study

The following assumptions were conceptualized for this study:

i. Cheplelachbei Museum is a representative of regional museums in Kenya.

ii. The information collected was true and accurately represented the views of all

visitors and workers in the museum.

iii. The experiences of visitors can be generalized to other museums in Kenya.

iv. The visitors‘ satisfaction was influenced by the presentation and interpretation of

products and services rendered in the museums.

1.7 Limitations of the Study

The study used the questionnaire survey which posed language challenges because all the

questionnaires were in English and some visitors could not understand English. This was

however addressed by the researcher through interpreting the questions for them in Kiswahili.

Some visitors instead of filling and handing in the questionnaires went away with them while
others returned them blank or partially filled. The researcher addressed this by giving out more
questionnaires to meet the targeted sample.
2.0 CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW

This project is dependable on my effort whereby I will visit our nearest school library and study sources
of history and government whereby I will do a research basing on the sources of history and government
which are classified into three groups:

i) Written sources
ii) Unwritten sources
iii) Electronic sources

Through these categories I will be able to visit our school library, internet and application of a
questionnaire when I will be doing this research.

2.1 INTRODUCTION
In this chapter, a review of related literature is made with the discussions guided by the research
objectives. The review starts by looking at the origin and history of museums, the different types
of museums, role of museums and products offered describing how the museums have evolved
over time in different parts of the world and also in Kenya. Further, the chapter presents a review
of tourist needs and motive to travel, tourist expectations and satisfaction in a destination.
Besides, strategies used to meet the visitors needs were reviewed to enable the researcher
understand what has been done in other destination and what needs to be done to increase the
visitors level of satisfaction after they visit a destination. Lastly, the theoretical and conceptual
frameworks are presented .

2.2 Origin and History of Museums

A Museum is a permanent institution, which displays, documents, conserves, preserves exhibits

and interprets material evidence and associated information for public benefit (Yale, 1998;

Kotler and Kotler, 1998). It is also defined as a non-profit making permanent institution in the

service of the society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves,

researches and communicates, for purposes of study, education and enjoyment; material and

immaterial evidence of people and their environment (ICOM, 2002).

2.3 Types of museums and products offered

Museums are organizations with diverse collections, missions and objectives leading to

formation of different types of museums. These include art, history, natural history and

anthropological museums, science, zoological and botanical gardens as well as

community museums.

Art museums are museums or institutions that have collections on fine art, prints,

sculpture drawings, decorative art and craft, drawings, ceramics, metal work, architecture
and photography. They reflect artistic accomplishment, both historic and contemporary

which enhance visitor understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of art. Most regional

museums in Kenya have an art gallery.

History museums are more popular compared to Art museums. These museums are

dedicated to promoting a greater appreciation and knowledge of history and its

importance to understanding the present and anticipating the future. Historical museums

usually collect a wide range of objects such as fine art furniture, clothing, documents, and

other materials.

Science museums are educational centers and training grounds for skills building

supplementing limited resources in schools. Greg (1996) asserts that the increase in

museum attendance in the recent years reflects the strengthening of education in many

societies. These museums are dedicated to enhance public understanding of science and

scientific achievements.

Community and Ethnic Museums are museums that represent the local cultures in

positive ways to the society. They seek to enhance community ties by furnishing through

artifacts, artwork, ideas, and symbols that strengthen cultural identities. These museums

give its visitors the necessary cultural capital and appreciation (Bourdieu, 1984; Gregs,

1996). They may have few visitors but are variable tourist resources and attractions.

Examples include the cultural villages in Maasai Mara in Kenya.

2.3 Role of Museums

Museums are viewed as the first in the move towards sustainable tourism because over

the years they have been valued for the care and preservation of their rare collections,

traditions and heritage. Museums offer many benefits to their visitors, communities,

society countries and world at large. The museum‘s chief role is education and offering
public oriented services. Its programs and operations aims at inclusiveness, accessibility

and be of use to a broad and diverse range of people (Kotler and Kotler 1998). Musyoki

(2000) also views the museum‘s role as educational, besides performing visual art and

celebration of cultural heritage. This is because, as educational institutions, they offer

unparalleled opportunities for self directed learning and exploration by people of diverse

ages, interests, background and abilities. Bourdieu (1984) argues that education gives the

visitors to museums the necessary cultural capital to appreciate museums.

Museums collects objects of scientific, aesthetic or historical importance, study, preserve,

interpret and exhibit them for the purpose of public education and advancement of

knowledge. The materials can be acquired from the community and can include items

such as paintings, precious stones or sculptures, house hold and regalia. Sometimes

museums buy particular items to fill gaps in an exhibit. They are public gathering places

where visitors are entertained, inspired and introduced to new ideas.

Cultural heritage is closely tied up to the identity and continuity of local communities and

the museum‘s collections. Museums are conventionally concerned with tangible cultural

heritage; and their raison is the communities they serve whose identities are bound up in

complex ways with the museum collections (UNESCO, 2003). Museums also provide

valuable intangible benefits as sources of National, Regional and Local identity.

Museums have the capacity to reflect continuity, change, and preservation, protect

cultural and natural heritage as well as vividly illustrating the progression of human

imagination and natural world.

Cultural presentation and interpretation is an art that combines many forms of art,

whether the cultural materials that are being presented are scie ntific, historical or

architectural and should be provocation, should aim at presenting a whole or holistic

picture rather than a part, and must address itself to the whole picture rather than any
phase (Akama and Kemboi, 2000). Cultural presentation and interpretation therefore

should be based on the different tourist segments because each segment has its own

uniqueness and their needs and expectations of a destination are also different. Therefore

development, presentation and interpretation of products b y museums would be tailored

for the different tourist segments and will enrich satisfaction of its visitors.
CHAPTER THREE

PROJECT DESIGN AND DESCRIPTION

3.0 Introduction

This chapter explains step by step how the research was done. It discusses the study area,

research design, target population, sample and sampling techniques. This chapter also

describes the data collection methods, tools used, validity and reliability of research tools

and data analysis procedures and techniques used to present results.

3.1 Study Area

Cheplelachbei Museum is located at the entry of Lessos. The school is on the left hand
side along Kapsabet – Lessos road .

Cheplelachbei has a tropical highland type of climate and therefore experiences cool

temperatures and high rainfall all year round. The surroundings are quiet due to its

proximity to the school which is some distant away from the town center.

Cheplelachbei museum is meant to represent kalenjin community and culture .

3.2 Research Design

MATERIALS

The following are materials I will use during my teaching practices

Nails, Boards, Stones, Ornaments, Drum, Horn, Phone, Radio

It is an arrangement of conditions for data collection and analysis of data in a manner that

aims to combine relevance with the research purpose. The study aimed at collecting

information from the school museum library.

3.3 Target Population

Target population is the group whom the researcher would like to generalize the results of

the study (Fredrvan and Fraenkel, 1984; Mugo, 2007). The target population for this

study consisted of all students .


3.4 Sample Size

A sample is a representation of part of the target population ( Mugenda and Mugenda,

1999). The sample consisted of respondents drawn from the school

3.5 Sampling Technique

The study used both probability and non probability sampling techniques. For

probability, systematic random sampling was used to select visitors to the museum while

purposive sampling was used select six school library workers.

3.6 Data Collection Methods

This study used both primary and secondary sources of data. Primary data was collected

through interview schedule with the museum Library and administration of two sets of

questionnaires .The two sets of questionnaires were for visitors and the museum workers

and had open and close ended questions. The interview will be conducted using semi

structured questionnaires that had open-ended and closed-ended questions. Secondary

data was obtained from the museum registry, newspapers, text books, journals as well as

the internet. Information from the library provided vital information on the trends of

visitors to the museums. During the study, some of the visitors were students from

primary and secondary schools within the county.

3.7 Data Collection Instruments

Questionnaires and interview schedule will be used to collect information for the school

museum. These methods were found to be appropriate because the aim of the study was

to determine strategies that the Cheplelachbei museum use in offering products and

services that satisfy the needs of the people visiting the place.
CHAPTER FOUR

4.0 MATERIALS, QUANTITY AND COST

The cost of the materials required to estimated and are summarized in the table below:-

No Materials Quantity Cost

1. Cooking stick

2. Steering stick

3. Arrows

4. Spears

5. Kalenjin cooking pot

6. Calabash

7. Cooking spoon

8.

9.

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11.

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14.

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4.1 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

The calendar of events is written to highlight the period through whivh the museum will

be set up. It stipulates the time and the schedule each activity to be done at a particular

time and by whom. The following is the calendar of events for the museum:-

Week Activity Done by


1-2 Identification of the problem Student, Teacher

3 Project proposal/writing

4 Identification of students to help


during setting up of a museum.
5 Working on the project

6-7 Correction of necessary areas.

8 Identification of storage area.

9-10 Project presentation

11-12 Project evaluation and

recommendation.

13-14 Project utilization.


Chapter five

Summary of findings, discussion, conclusions and


Recommendations

5.0 Introduction

In this chapter a critical analysis of the study findings presented while relating the

findings to other studies previously done and existing theories. Conclusions and

recommendations from these findings are drawn and made respectively. Finally

recommendations on the possible areas for further research are also made.

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