The work to establish the Cwezi Museum has taken off and will take advantage of Fort Portal Town as a budding Tourist City in the country with higher number of foreign and local tourists regularly visiting the attractive wild life and other land scape sceneries.
The Museum will serve as a research and information hub in the Rwenzori Region and beyond for academicians, students, development actors and researchers. There has been information gap about the Bacwezi Dynasty due to little, scatterd or no documented facts and information about Bacwezi dynasty as one of the major founders of Kitara Kingdom and later a break off of other Kingdoms. Major information about the political, social and economic organization of the Bacwezi communities needs to be sourced, packaged and availed to the users.
Therefore, the museum will collect and preserve information, knowledge and tools about Bacwezi through packaging, documentation and dissemination. It will also exhibit and market the Bacwezi social, political and economic norms, values and practices to potential information users. Finally, it will generate income from local and foreign tourists, learning, development agencies and research institutions
Therefore, the museum organization will have a board and the staff to achieve its aims and objectives comprised of an executive director, an administrator, a finance officer, an information and communications officer and research and documentation officer.
Museum Info Access Unit
The art gallery caters for the display of posters, paint pictures, wood, craft and molds with a special focus on Bachwezi tradition, heritage and cultural practices. Learn more about the Art Gallery in the Cwezi Museum. This is one of the strongest units of the museum containing historical content about the Bachwezi, systems of governance, faith and cultural beliefs, tradition, norms and values, including physical tools used in any of the mentioned sections. Learn more here. The Information Resource Unit is responsible for exhibiting the Art gallery, info-resource and video archives room. Learn more. The Video section serves for short video documentaries and productions for viewing and product selling. They include traditional music, plays, features, news and interviews. Learn more.
Cwezi Clan Business Unit (CNBU)
The spot will avail space for in- door and external games for interaction, socialization, relaxation and exercising. Learn more. The café will avail email, internet, stationary, typing, photocopy, binding, lamination services. Learn more. It will provide break fasts, lunch and dinner service to visitors and other customers to the museum. The dishes to be served will range from Ugandan and international food. Learn more. Will provide touring services to tourists interested to visit national parks, crate lakes sites, mountaineering and nature walks within Rwenzori region and out side the region. Learn more.
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We have embarked on museum complex establishment plan for a period of 5 years (November 2015 to October 2020) and is soliciting for a financial funding of UGX 500,000,000 from potential donors. The funding will cover construction work, staffing and remuneration for a start, stocking of the museum with literature, art products and furniture. We welcome donations in cash and materials. For donations, please continue here.
