13/04/2026
The mobile museum is changing how people experience culture and knowledge in Uganda.
For a long time, museums have been seen as places you have to travel to quiet spaces behind walls, often far from the communities whose stories they hold. The mobile museum takes a different approach. It moves and reaches people where they are.
Through the Traditional Medicine in Transition project, the mobile museum travels across the country, bringing research, stories and cultural knowledge directly to communities. It carries exhibitions on traditional medicine, plant knowledge and lived practices that are deeply rooted in everyday life.
This is about connection, people see familiar plants, hear voices that reflect their own experiences and engage with knowledge that has been passed down through generations.
It also creates access. Schools, rural communities and public spaces that may never have the chance to visit a museum can now experience one. It opens up learning in a way that is simple, inclusive and engaging.
