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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife, and Antiquities has announced that the remodeling works for the national museum will commence in October this year and are expected to run for seven months, ending in May 2024. Jackiline Nyiracyiza, the acting commissioner for museums and monuments …

‘Exhibition celebrates the excitement, optimism and promise of 9th October 1962 while acknowledging that, for many Ugandans Independence was partial victory’- Exhibition catalogue There’re two things that will catch your attention as soon as you walk into the exhibition: Uganda at 60 showing at the Uganda Museum: Firstly, the black …

  Atlanta, USA | THE INDEPENDENT | The backcloth and the Ankole long-horned cattle have been showcased at the African Textile Museum in Stone Crest, Atlanta, Georgia as a part of Uganda’s cultural heritage. The event dubbed “Bark-cloth to the Roots”was organized by the Ugandan Embassy in Washington to put …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Directorate of Geological Survey and Mines is struggling to replace mineral sample collections plundered from its museum by insurgents in the early 1980s. In the 1980s, the facility shelved over 35 mineral samples that included iron ore, copper, uranium, gold, and different rock samples …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Buganda Kingdom has contributed UGX 70million towards the construction of a museum in honour of Sir Edward Mutesa II, the 35th Kabaka of Buganda and the first president of Uganda.  The Museum is going to be housed in the same building that Mutesa II used …

Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Masaka diocese catholic diocese has unveiled a historical museum that depicts the priestly life and works of Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala. The museum is found in his ancestral home in Kamaggwa village in Lwankoni Sub County in Kyotera district. The museum will act as a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  | The Catholic church in Uganda is in final stages of unveiling a grand religious museum depicting the history of Christianity and Catholicism in particular, since the 1870s when the first missionaries arrived in the country. The development has been revealed by the Kampala Archbishop Cyprian …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Wildlife Education Center – UWEC plans to construct a resource center and memorial monument in remembrance of Zakayo, the late celebrity Chimpanzee. Zakayo died in November 2018 at UWEC where it had stayed since June 1976 after it was handed over by whites who …

Thessaloniki, Greece | AFP | Opposition politicians, archaeologists and locals have denounced Greek government plans to displace the fragile remnants of an ancient city district unearthed during work on a subway tunnel in Thessaloniki. Experts say the early Byzantine site, which includes the city’s main 6th-century highway, ancient buildings and hundreds …

Abomey-Calavi, Benin | AFP |  The display cases at the royal palaces in Benin’s sleepy southern town of Abomey are coated in dust and the exhibition halls plunged in darkness. But local tourism chief Gabin Djimasse hopes all this will change with the return of 26 artefacts from former colonial master …