Makerere Art Gallery

Makerere Art Gallery was founded in 1969 as exhibition space for the growing collection of artworks by faculty and students of the renowned Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts.[1] This collection, gathered from the early days of the art school in the 1940s, is today the only historic collection of modern Ugandan art. Since Uganda does not have a National Gallery of Art or any comparable institution with a mandate to collect artworks the university collection is filling this gap. The art collection is a unique resource for local, national, and international researchers