GoDown Arts Centre is one of Nairobi's important independent cultural spaces, rooted in the city's contemporary visual-art, performance and creative-production scene. Its industrial setting is part of the appeal: this is not a polished national museum, but a working arts hub.
Check current programming before going, because the value of a visit depends on what is open, on show or in rehearsal. When something is happening, it gives travellers a much better sense of Nairobi's present-tense creativity than another circuit of colonial-era landmarks.