Days after unveiling the “Explore Uganda” brand, Uganda tourism continues to boom in anticipation of brighter days ahead with more and more tourism advances emerging in the country.
Latest of these is the first of its kind, the Uganda Railway Museum which has been opened up for tourism in the eastern tourism city of Jinja, a re-known town with railway transport importance due to the numerous factories in the area.
This comes at a moment when the neighboring countries of Tanzania and Kenya are reviving their old rail networks and upgrading them to standard gauged railways.
The opened museum officially known as the Uganda Railway Museum, is historically correct located at the country’s oldest railway station in Jinja on the Jinja-Iganga highway.
It celebrates Uganda’s history as captured in the book titled Our Railways, Our History, published last year to recognise and celebrate the story of Uganda’s railways, explore its role in the lives of those who lived and worked along them, and their place in the country’s economic and political development.
The museum has been developed as a tourist attraction and its programme offers heritage theme nights, a permanent photography and artefacts exhibition, exploring walking tour on an old locomotive and passenger coach, screening of railways film recollections and stories and guided tours of the museum and station.
The museum is open to the public and has a shop and cafeteria. The museum is open to visitors from Tuesdays to Sundays, 11am-6pm. Ugandan citizens will pay Ush5,000 ($1.3) and children Ush2,000 ($0.5) as entrance fee. Non-citizens will pay $5 for adults and $3 for children. Part of the museum has been designed with young people in mind to support their learning and appreciation of Uganda’s history.
The project has been developed as a partnership between the Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda and the Uganda Railways Corporation, with support from the European Union.
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