Uganda Museum
Museum entrance
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 Map of Kampala showing the location of Uganda Museum.
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| Established | 1908 |
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| Location | Northern part of Kampala Kitante hill plot 5 Kira road 5 km away from the city centre, Uganda. |
| Type | Historical |
| Director | Rose Nkaale Mwanja |
| Architect | Ernst May |
| Public transit access | The Uganda Museum can be accessed by public taxi, going to Kamwokya Ntinda, motorcycle motorist (Boda boda) or by private means. |
| Website | Museum website |
The Uganda Museum is a museum in Kampala, Uganda, which displays and exhibits ethnological, natural-historical and traditional life collections of Uganda's cultural heritage. The museum was founded in 1908, after Governor George Wilson called for "all articles of interest" on Uganda to be procured. Also among the collections in the Uganda Museum are playable musical instruments, hunting equipment, weaponry, archaeology and entomology.
The Uganda museum is the oldest museum in East Africa; it was officially established by the British protectorate government in 1908 with ethnographic material. The history of the nuseum goes back to 1902 when Governor George Wilson called for collection of objects of interest throughout the country to set up a museum. The museum started in a small Sikh temple at Lugards Fort on Old Kampala Hill. Between 1920s and 1940s, archaeology and paleontological surveys and excavations were conducted by Church Hill, E. J. Wayland, Bishop J. Wilson, P. L. Shinnie, E. Lanning, and several others, who collected a significant number of artifacts to boost the museum. The museum at Fort Lugard become too small to hold the specimens, and the museum was moved to the Margret Trowel School of Fine Art at Makerere University College in 1941. Later, funds were raised for a permanent home and the museum was moved to its current home on Kitante Hill in 1954. In 2008, the museum turned 100 years old.
The museum has a number galleries: ethnographic, natural history, traditional music, science and industry, and early history.
The ethnography section holds more than 100,000 object of historical and culturalvalue. A traditional reed door leads to exhibits on health, knowledge systems, objects of warfare, traditional dressing and other various ceremonial practices in Uganda.
Traditional reed door leading to the Ethnography gallery
Barkcloth showcase
Traditional wooden stools from different parts of Uganda
Traditional justice showcase
Gomesi and Kanzu traditional outfits of Uganda
The music gallery displays a comprehensive collection of musical instruments from all parts of Uganda. The instruments are arranged according to the major groups of music instruments: drums, percussion, wind and string instruments.
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