IS THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF UGANDA SAVED OR NOT!?!

If these news are indeed coming true, then we are proud for even the least of contribution that we may have offered to this cause:

But we are afraid that there is still a long way to go, since there is a court case pending:

http://www.crossculturalfoundation.or.ug/info/news_events.php

And the government of Uganda shifts the attention to other cultural targets involving private funds:

http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/315122-uganda-opens-biggest-cultural-museum-in-east-africa.html

The local press, however, is still pressing for the good cause of the preservation of the National Museum, which is by itself a monument of Ugandan history, as well as addressing the more general improvement of state policy towards antiquities and heritage in Uganda in general:

http://ugmuseums.blogspot.com/


Poster presented at the 19th Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists held in Frankfurt in September 2008