The Uganda Museum is the oldest museum in East Africa; it was officially established by the British protectorate government in 1908. Its history goes back to 1902 when the deputy Governor George Wilson called for collection of objects of interest throughout the country to set up a museum. The museum started in a small Sikh temple at Fort Lugard on Old Kampala Hill. Between the 1920s and 1940s, archaeology and paleontological surveys and excavations were conducted by Church Hill, Wayland, Bishop J. Wilson, E. Lanning, and several others, who collected a significant number of artifacts to boost the museum. The museum at Fort Lugard later become too small to hold the specimens, and was moved to the'' Margret Trowel School of Fine Art'' at Makerere University College in 1941. Later, funds were raised for a permanent home and the museum was moved to its current location on Kitante Hill in 1954. In 2008, the museum celebrated 100 years in service