 Lamu Old Town is located on an archipilago of the coast of Kenya in the Indian Ocean. Once an important trade center in Islamic traditional East Africa. The town dated to the 12th century and is the cradle of Swahili culture and an important religion center. The only culture landscape in Kenya include on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Lamu Contensible Historical Site include the German Post Office, the Lamu Museum house in an old Swahili warehouse and the Lamu Fort. Lamu Museum was established in the 1960. It constitute one of the largest and most authentic Swahili ethnographic collection on the East African coast. Assembli from numerous researchers from the early 90s. The artifacts represent different faiths of Swahili culture heritage includes item of textual, jewellery, wood carving art, musical instrument, marine time, archeological and thou exhibition. Lamu Museum now holds Lamu and Oman exhibition. The aim of the partner is to show the oman present in East Africa include Lamu. Some historians stated that the actual begin of oman present is struck back to about 2000 years. It was confirmed that the oman salea in the era play a vital role in the marine trade across the Indian Ocean. The transfer species from the coast archeological finding approved by the navigator of oman had soviet over the Indian Ocean since the 3rd millennian BC. The museum now holds Swahili social life, Maulid in Lamu, jewellery, Swahili Ataya, marine town life, Swahili wedding and archeological exhibition that is tagged in three languages, Swahili, English and Oman Arab language. The Oman exhibition in Lamu Museum consists of exhibition of Oman through ages. Oman marine time heritage of human and the sea. People, community and Sultan of Said, the Inacity in the East Africa. Sultan Kabus bin Said, modern oman and the oman present in East Africa. Asalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. My name is Khadija Issa Tuaqir. I am a librarian at Lamu Fort Museum Library. The Lamu Fort Museum Library is a department of Lamu Museum. The documents that we preserved here are manuscripts. We have manuscripts from 19th century. We have other manuscripts of 20th century. And the manuscript that we have here are Islamic religious manuscripts. We have manuscripts of Quran manuscripts. We have manuscripts of Miladina B. We have manuscripts of Sunnah. We have hadith manuscripts. We have falak manuscripts. And we have dua and point manuscripts. With the business transaction manuscript, we have receipts that show the economic activity that was done since the colonial time and East Africa time. So we have receipts and ledger books of colonial time and East Africa time. And other kind of manuscripts we preserved here are old photographs. We have about 500 old photographs of monuments and sites of Lamu and Mubasa, few of Mubasa, and also photographs of Lamu people and their culture. The other kind of documents we preserved here are coins. We have started doing collection of coins. These are old currents that were used since East Africa time and some currents that were used during colonial time. Also we are preserving all the cassettes, all cassettes of salmon and some cassettes of coins, some cassettes of songs. Manuscripts that we are preserving here are Qurani manuscripts. We have like five Qurani manuscripts of different Arabic scripts. The Qurani manuscript, the context of the Qurani is the same, but the Arabic scripts, some are written with different Arabic calligraphy. As you can see some of the calligraphy that was used to write this kind of manuscript is different from the calligraphy that was used to write this kind of manuscripts. This different kind of Qurani manuscript, as you can see, the calligraphy that was used to write this manuscript are different. The calligraphy that was used to write this one is different from the calligraphy that was used to write this Qurani manuscript. It's also different from the calligraphy that was used to write this kind of manuscript. Some of the manuscripts have a border, wa na raidi nabunazini. One also some of the manuscript has comments comments fast like this one this has comments about the desura. We need a specialist to tell us what is written on the comments side of the Quran. So this is the comment side. This manuscript we did restoration Ai Chongibu Karahulu gastini tipo kini Knojizia hii Kнаjizia hii Wakultod Kここ blendswa is the environmental condition of lamu, so the temperatures here are very high, this calls the manuscript paper to be brittle and decolorized, as you can see some of them are decolorized. We also have high humidity here in lamu that cause breathing of insects, as you can see the pages are torn from their tone from insects, we have a problem of silver fish, as you can see the pattern of the area was caused by the silver fish, all these holes were made by the silver fish and also the way the manuscript was preserved before, the people who are preserving the manuscript were not taking care of the manuscript, so it was a lot of work to maintain or to to have the manuscript in this way now, we have done a lot of restoration, a lot of cleaning, it was very dusty, dusty is also another reason that cause deterioration of the manuscript, so because of the high temperature again and the humidity there is a lot of dust and because we are near the ocean it's so windy and thus as you can see this one it has deteriorated but we have tried to do some repair work of it, so all of them has the same problem, the paper as you can see is eaten by insects and the pattern of the tone shows that this is silver fish problem, so we have silver fish problem here the manuscript is very beautiful as you can see and this also has a comment under araba stamp, this is a kind of stamp for the person who wrote this manuscript, he put his manuscript maybe it has some details, I don't know what is written here but this is an araba stamp that maybe describes the author of the manuscript for these manuscripts that we have we don't know the author of the manuscript the original author but during the cataloging of this manuscript we put only the ownership we record the ownership of the manuscript, this manuscript was collected from lamu manuscript and there are a lot of manuscripts that are owned by individual people here in lamu, we have a lot of manuscripts at lamu east, there is another island called Dao, is an island called Faza, is an island called Siu, so there are a lot of people who own this manuscript and as you can see our manuscript here, I can say they are in good condition but those that are owned by individual people at lamu east at Faza and Siu they are badly damaged, they are not in good condition, they are away, they are reserved, they need to be taken care of, some people believe that when you read this old manuscript, manuscript that was written by scholars, old scholar, you get a lot of blazing, so this is the reason also that cause little duration of the manuscript because the manuscript, they are very old manuscript handling of the manuscript cause little duration of the manuscript so we tried to advise the people who own manuscript not to use the manuscript anymore because they cause a lot of damage while they are reading the manuscript, the other kinds of manuscripts that we have here, as you can see the manuscript they have different covers, these are the original cover, there is a later cover, this is how the original cover looks like but this one we have done some repair and we have put new new covers, this one also is new cover, it's not the original cover but this one the original cover of the manuscript, like this one it is you see you see silver fish, this is the problem that we have, this is the one that cause little duration of the manuscript, we are trying to put in set aside but still we are facing a lot of challenges with manuscript, this kind of falak manu sweeps, the condition of the manuscript is in bad condition so we could not do any repair work because of the the way the condition of the manuscripts look like so as you can see the page how it looks like, the pages are the colorized, we have the colorized pages and they are all loose pages, we tried to sort them out but still we could not do any repair work of this one, we decided to put in acid free folder like this one, so the manuscript we did no description about this one, it has a watermark of moon facing in double rimmed crest and the letter cv, let's see how the the watermark look like, so the pages has watermark which page has watermark the pages has watermark, so one of the pages has the manuscript has watermark you see the way the condition, this is the colorized manuscript and also this one has a half moon watermark, it has half moon watermark, you see the condition they are very bad damage, they were very beautiful as you can see, the border looks very beautiful okay so we have a lot of loose pages with watermark you see this falaf manuscript, they were used as a traditional medicine this is falaf manuscript, let's see if we can see the pattern of the watermark the watermark reads the originality of the manuscript, when we went through the loose pages that are here, we found that we saw manuscripts with watermark originated from Bombay, some watermark originated from U.S. and some we didn't know were the originality of the watermark, so from the watermark this show where the paper was manifested, so the paper of the manuscript some of them had watermark that shows Bombay, the watermark was written Bombay, this shows that the paper was manufactured in Bombay, so all of this has watermark see this is also falaf so we tried to sort them out and do dust them, we preserved this loose folder this one has no watermark, see how the falaf manuscript look like, so this is I don't know how they use this to do falaf, because all the falaf manuscripts have this calculation or mark this one, also let's see this one, it has the same mark let us see if we can see the table, they like using tables like this one let's see this one, it has the same table, this one like this one this business transaction manuscripts, the business transaction manuscript that we have here are ledger that were used to do business during East Africa time and some receipts and ledger that were used during the colonial time so like this receipt this shows that someone has paid 1000 sheeding for the selling of selling of coconut this receipts show the abolish of slave, this receipts shows abolish of slave the receipts was written by Diwali of Lamu in 1923 so there was a slavery abolish of slaves in Lamu during that time so the other charges were compensation so compensation by Salma Gwinti Muhamed in Lamu other receipts also Diwali was written by Diwali these receipts also show the number of people, this is continuation of this one this is the number of people that number of slaves slaves that were abolish during that time so we have Humari, Hamisi, Nusura, Venabu and so on it's a long list of slaves that were abolish during that time and this other kind of business transaction we have ledgers so they are selling more so until we have experts who can work for this one and this one is a receipt that shows the selling of coconuts and the receipt was written in 1924 time so all these receipts was written during colonial time and it was in 1924 other records that we are preserving here at the library are old photos we have old photos of Lamu all the town we have old photo of sites and monuments of Lamu and photos of Lamu people and their culture such as this one, this is for Lamu town and this one is Kiyuma Kiyuma, Muhamed Kiyuma, the famous artist who was in Lamu he wrote a lot of poem by Muhamed Kiyuma and other collection that we are preserving here at the Lamu Port Library is a slides of negative slides these are negative slides of various kind of photos we have negative slides of boats of Lamu we have negative slides of Lamu Archipelago this age between 1987 and many other like Archipelago slides we have Lamu Moli festival slides they are all 1988 to 1997 slides there are many about 500 photos slides, negative slides and this one are cassettes, we also preserve old cassettes these are cassettes that was recorded in 2006 these are Moli, they are futar cassettes futar is done during Ramadan and these are we have also made collection of old coins these are old coins that we have started collecting these are coins from 1926, 28 and also for 10 cents for 1984 so they are very old and we have made a good collection a number of collection from coins of different years