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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 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.HistoryThe 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 Wilkerson 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 1920 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 later 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.GalleriesThe museum has a number galleries, that is ethnographic gallery, natural history gallery, traditional music gallery, science and industry gallery and the early history gallery.

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