Uhuru Gardens Museum — East Africa's most significant cultural AV installation.
The design and implementation of a landmark USD 1.4 million audio-visual system at Uhuru Gardens National Heritage Site, Nairobi — featuring the largest LCD video walls in East Africa, a 100m² transparent LED film, and Displax interactive touch technology for immersive heritage storytelling.
Project video
Uhuru Gardens Museum — AV System Installation
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Technical specifications
System components & installation details.
LCD Video Wall
12×5 LG · 1.8mm pixel pitch
60 × 55-inch LG commercial displays in a 12-wide by 5-tall configuration. At 1.8mm pixel pitch, this is the highest-resolution large-format LCD video wall installation in East Africa.
Transparent LED Film
100m² LG Transparent LED
Full-surface transparent LED film enabling see-through digital content overlay on architectural glass — creating a landmark visual feature visible from both inside and outside the facility.
Interactive Technology
Displax Capacitive Touch
The LCD video wall is enhanced with Displax capacitive touch foil technology, enabling multi-touch interactive exhibition experiences directly on the wall surface.
Project Lead
Nelson Mandela Mugarura
Director, Perlogy Technologies LLC · MBA, MSc, BSc. Led the full design, specification, and implementation process.
Application & Use
Exhibitions · National events · Heritage storytelling
Uhuru Gardens National Heritage Site, Nairobi, Kenya — Kenya's national independence memorial site. The system serves permanent exhibitions, state ceremonies, and public heritage programming.
The challenge
Uhuru Gardens is Kenya's most significant national heritage site — the location where independence was proclaimed on 12 December 1963. The brief required an audio-visual system that could serve multiple, competing demands simultaneously: immersive exhibition experiences for daily visitors, infrastructure for national state ceremonies, and a permanent heritage storytelling platform that would endure decades of use. The scale of the LED and LCD requirements, combined with the architectural sensitivity of a protected national monument, made this one of the most technically demanding projects ever undertaken in East Africa.
Our role
Perlogy Technologies led the design and technology specification for the entire audio-visual system, working in authorised partnership with LG Electronics and executing alongside Digital Mara Kenya. Under the leadership of Director Nelson Mandela Mugarura MBA, MSc, BSc, Perlogy specified and supplied the full LG display technology stack — including the 12×5 configuration of LG 1.8mm pixel-pitch 55-inch commercial displays forming East Africa's largest LCD video wall, the 100m² LG Transparent LED Film installation, and the integration of Displax capacitive touch technology across the video wall surface for interactive exhibition experiences.
The result
The completed system delivers a fully immersive, modern visual environment capable of supporting permanent exhibitions, temporary cultural programmes, and state-level national events. The 12×5 LCD video wall — the largest of its kind in East Africa — anchors the main exhibition space, while the 100m² transparent LED film creates a landmark architectural feature visible from both inside and outside the facility. The Displax touch integration transforms the video wall into an interactive heritage platform, allowing visitors to engage directly with Kenya's independence story. This installation sets a new benchmark for what is possible in cultural AV across the African continent.
“Uhuru Gardens is where Kenya's independence story lives. Our responsibility was to build a technology system worthy of that story — one that would inspire visitors for generations and demonstrate that Africa's cultural institutions deserve world-class technology.”
Nelson Mandela Mugarura
Director, Perlogy Technologies LLC · MBA, MSc, BSc
Delivered with
LG Electronics
Display technology partner (authorised)
Displax
Touch technology integration
Digital Mara Kenya
Implementation & commissioning partner
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