Uganda Museum
Uganda Museum is located along Kira road on plot 5 and 4 kilometers from Kampala City on Kitante hill. The Uganda museum is a place that holds most of Uganda’s cultural heritage where one can have a glimpse of the ethnological and natural-historical exhibitions. This 111-year-old museum is a reminder of the country’s colorful past, the sculptures and paintings are displayed in deem light rooms for an epic experience.
A brief history of the Uganda Museum
The Uganda Museum was founded in 1908 by the British protectorate government after the governor George Wilson called for the articles of interest on Uganda to be procured. This was done at Fort Luggard on Old Kampala hill. The excavations and paleontological surveys plus archaeology were conducted by Bishop J. Wilson, E. Lanning, Church Hill, and several others. The place later became too small to hold all the research work and findings. This forced the shifting of the museum and it was moved to the Margret Trowel School of Fine Art at Makerere University College in 1941. A permanent home was later achieved after raising funds and the museum was moved to its current location on Kitante hill in 1954.
Review
The Uganda museum carries out research and a wide range of collections exist from the 1960s to the present. Visitors can have a glimpse of the specimens that are displayed in the Natural History or Paleontology Gallery which is inside the museum building and open to the public. The museum provides a source of education in form of outreach programs, demonstration lessons workshops. Visitors and students are provided with a museum guide that guides them around the building while learning more and discovering more insights into the place.
The visitors have a chance to research and experience more because of the well-organized sections inside the building, for example, the archeology section that contains a number of different findings that is to say the parts of the stone age and iron age that are an insight of the tools that were used over one million years ago. The building also has the tradition section of the music which contains the first African instruments to be locally made in the Pearl of Africa.
At the back of the museum, resides the cultural village that depicts the different traditional lifestyles in Uganda. The place contains huts constructed basing on different house structures of the different tribes of Uganda. Traditional music is played using traditional instruments gotten from different areas of Uganda. Good for parties and tourist meetups. A lot of craftwork is found in this place so acquiring one for you is a definite destination.
Getting there
The means of transport to access the museum is by using public means which involves the use of taxis and Boda Boda (motorbikes) that are highly used and avoiding traffic it’s a perfect choice well as those that need private mean, they are highly available.
The place is open Monday to Saturday enabling flexible movements and schedules of the visitors in and out of the museum building. The guides are available for service once you arrive at the reception of the building.
Uganda museum has become famous for hosting a lot of parties and ceremonies in Kampala, for example, the blankets and wine, recently it hosted the Rolex festival, ekyoto cultural exhibition, and a lot more fun factories are held within the grounds at the Uganda museum.
The nearest accommodation places near the museum include; Urban by City Blue about 0.6mile from the museum, Fairway Hotel, Kampala Serena Hotel, Mestil hotel and residence among others. Therefore you can reside anywhere you wish to depend on your budget plan for the Kampala city tour.
