Facts About the Uganda National Museum
The disheartening news that the home of the only remaining national museum will soon be no more is absurd. The Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Industry is entertaining plans to demolish it and in its place, put up a 60-storey office block. The museum will then occupy two floors in this gigantic monster of a 200-metre high building.
The Uganda museum (founded in 1908) is the container of Uganda’s historic memories. It is located on Kiira Road, near Mulago hospital, about 4 km from Kampala city centre. The museum is a true reflection of Uganda’s multicultural past displaying the countries indigenous culture, archeology, history, science, and natural history.
It was inaugurated in 1908 at Lugard’s Fort on Old Kampala Hill in Kampala city, and is regarded as the biggest and the oldest museum in Uganda. The museum was relocated to Makerere University in the school of industrial and fine arts …