How much does a website cost for a school, science centre or museum in Uganda? (2026 guide)

The short answer, by institution

Institutional websites cluster into clear bands, and the spread comes from one question: does the site only inform, or does it also take bookings and money? A school site that presents programmes, fees, staff and admissions is a contained project. A science centre or museum that books school visits, sells tickets and runs events is a small operational system, and it is priced like one.

• School website (programmes, admissions, fees, staff, news, gallery): $800 - $2,500
• Science centre or museum, informational plus events and a visit-request form: $1,500 - $3,000
• Science centre or museum with online ticketing, school and group bookings and mobile money payments: $3,000 - $5,000
• Hosting, domain, email and maintenance: roughly $20 - $150 per month

What pushes the price up

Five things move an institutional site from the low band to the high band. First, bookings: a school-visit or group-booking flow with dates, group sizes, confirmations and a calendar your staff can manage is real engineering. Second, payments: online tickets or admissions fees through MTN MoMo, Airtel Money or an aggregator such as Flutterwave or PesaPal add integration and testing time, plus transaction fees in production. Third, an events calendar that staff update themselves, which means a content management layer rather than static pages. Fourth, media: exhibits, labs and galleries want strong photography and fast image handling, and if you do not have the photos yet, producing them is a cost to budget. Fifth, roles: if parents, teachers, members or staff log in to see different things, you have moved from a website to a platform.

Science centres and museums: where the value is

For a visitor attraction, the website earns its keep in two places. The first is school and group bookings: if a teacher can request a visit for 40 pupils in two minutes, pick a date, and get a confirmation, your staff stop living on the phone and your calendar fills. The second is tickets and memberships: selling online with mobile money removes the cash handling and gives you a record of every visitor. Everything else - the exhibits pages, the story, the team - supports those two. When we scope a site like this, we start from the booking and ticketing flow and design backwards, because that is what will pay for the build.

Schools: what actually matters to parents

Parents visit a school website to answer four questions fast: what do you teach, what does it cost, how do we apply, and can we trust you. A good school site answers them on the first screen and makes the admissions enquiry a two-minute form, not a PDF download. Fees should be findable, not hidden. A photo gallery and news section keep current parents engaged, but they are not what converts a prospective one. We see schools spend on slideshows and animation and forget the fee page; reverse that.

The running costs and who maintains it

A website is not finished at launch. Budget $20 to $150 per month for hosting, a domain, SSL and email, more if you expect heavy visitor traffic during events. The bigger question is who updates it: term dates, new exhibits, staff changes, events. Either your team needs a simple content area they can actually use, or you need a maintenance arrangement. Ask every vendor two things before you sign: what does month thirteen cost, and what happens if we want to update the events page ourselves?

What to prepare before you ask for a quote

You will get a sharper price and a faster build if you arrive with five things: your logo and brand colours; the list of pages and what each must do, especially whether bookings and payments are in scope; photos, or a plan to get them; the people who will maintain content after launch; and a launch date that matters, such as an opening, a term start or a grant milestone. Projects without a real date drift, and drift costs more than any feature.

How long it takes and how we price it

A school website typically ships in two to four weeks once content is ready; a science centre or museum site with bookings and ticketing in four to eight weeks. At Information Village every engagement starts with a written plan, timeline and fixed price before any work begins, you own the code and the site at handover, and we reply to enquiries within four business hours. If you are planning a school, science centre or museum site, the fastest route to an exact figure is a short call where we walk through what the site needs to do.