Kampala City Tour
In the Ugandan capital of Kampala stands the Uganda Museum. It presents and shows Uganda's cultural legacy in the form of ethnological, natural-historical, and traditional living collections. After Governor George Wilson ordered that ``all things of interest`` in Uganda be purchased, it was established in 1908. The Uganda Museum has collections of weapons, archaeology, entomology, playable musical instruments, and hunting gear.
The Uganda Museum was formally founded by the British protectorate administration in 1908 with anthropological collections, making it the oldest museum in East Africa. Its beginnings may be traced back to 1902, when Governor George Wilson asked for the gathering of interesting things from all around the nation in order to establish a museum.
A modest Sikh temple at Fort Lugard on Old Kampala Hill served as the museum’s original location. Church Hill, E. J. Wayland, Bishop J. Wilson, P. L. Shinnie, E. Lanning, and other individuals carried out archaeological and paleontological surveys and excavations between the 1920s and 1940s, and they amassed a sizable amount of objects to bolster the museum.
In 1941, the museum at Fort Lugard was relocated to the Margret Trowel School of Fine Art at Makerere University College because it was too small to accommodate the specimens. The museum was relocated to its present site on Kitante Hill in 1954 after money was eventually obtained for a permanent facility. The museum turned 100 years old in 2008.
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German architect Ernst May created a historical landmark with the museum building. To ensure the correct preservation of antiques, the facility was created with enough of natural light and air.
