Uganda · Central Region · Kampala
Makerere, Kampala — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Makerere is a Kampala neighbourhood on one of the seven hills of the city's founding, and it holds the Makerere University Zoological Museum.
About Makerere
Where to stay in Makerere
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
A room in Makerere sits on one of Kampala's original seven hills rather than in the centre, with the Makerere University Zoological Museum the one named collection inside the neighbourhood. Kampala carries the beds. Staying down in the city puts more rooms in reach and leaves Makerere hill as a trip out.
About Makerere
What are the main landmarks in Makerere?
Makerere's tally stops at one museum. The Makerere University Zoological Museum is the single landmark recorded here, a Makerere University collection standing on the hill that the neighbourhood shares its name with. Everything else belongs to Kampala, whose founding hills Makerere was one of in the early 1900s.
What is the history of Makerere?
Kampala was founded across seven hills in the early 1900s, and Makerere was one of them, giving its name to the hill, to the neighbourhood on it and to the university collection recorded there. The rest is Uganda's capital growing outward. Makerere sat inside the city from that founding, and the Makerere University Zoological Museum is what the record keeps from the years since.
Where is Makerere?
Makerere occupies one of the seven hills Kampala was founded across, a rise inside the capital of Uganda.
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Updated September 2026