Ker Kwaro Acholi has launched a drive to construct a standard museum that will not only benefit the people of Acholi but sell Acholi culture to the whole world.
Okello Okuna, the spokesperson for Ker Kwaro Acholi told Favor Fm that they have so far submitted their draft and write ups about how they want the museum to look like to the Ministry of Gender Labor and Social Development for advice to ensure that their plans meet the standard of the Uganda museum guidelines.
Okuna says that inside the planned museum, they will have conference halls, film production room and a big area gazetted for keeping cultural instruments belonging to Acholi among others.
According to Okuna, the members of the public who have things to be kept in the museum will also be allowed to bring them and an agreement will be reached between them and Ker Kwaro Acholi to be receiving some monthly token from whatever they took to the museum.
As another means of rewarding those that will bring important Acholi instruments to the museum, Okuna said that their names will also be written on the walls of the museum with the historic instrument they brought to the museum.
Okuna says that with the current Competence Based Curriculum of learning, learners will be able to learn and see whatever they are learning as well as touching, this makes it possible for the child not to forget whatever they have learned because they saw and touched as well.
Ker Kwaro Acholi hopes to generate revenue for the cultural institution through this initiative according to Okuna.
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying and preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects, many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display and some have non-exhibited collections that are used by researchers and specialists, museums hold a wide range of objects and often focus on a particular theme, such as the arts, science, natural history, or local history.
By Ekwany Becky
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