Olduvai Gorge
Olduvai Gorge is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world and has been instrumental in furthering understanding of early human evolution.
The Olduvai Gorge Museum is located in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Northern Tanzania on the edge the of Olduvai Gorge; directly where the Gorge split into two. It is approximately 5-km from the main road to the Serengeti plains north west of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
The Olduvai Gorge Museum was founded by Mary Leakey in the late 1970s. The museum was originally designed to house paleoanthropological artifacts from the surrounding area. TheOlduvai Gorge Museum was later after her death put under control of the Tanzanian Government's Department of Cultural Antiquities. During the Mid 1990s The J.paul Department of Conservation renovated and added to the museum. This included a new wing with exhibitions that were designed by the J.paul
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