The Uganda Museum is situated five kilometers away from the Kampala city centre on plot 5 Kira road, just after Mulago National Referral Hospital
The Uganda Museum is the oldest in East Africa with a collection exceeding one million specimens. The core of the collections is ethnography and fossils.
The Museum seeks to portray Uganda and the activities of its people by preserving and disseminating information about it and its peoples to the visitors.
Mandate of the Museum
“Promote, protect and present the cultural and natural heritage of Uganda through collection, conservation, preservation, study and information dissemination for delectation and education.”