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Kandt House Museum

KN 90 ST, NYARUGENGE · NYARUGENGE

Kigali's first modern house, built in 1907 by German doctor and researcher Richard Kandt, renovated and reopened as Kandt House Museum in 2017. The exhibits map Rwandan life before colonization, the transition from German to Belgian rule, and natural history alongside it.

1907 RESIDENCENATURAL HISTORYCOLONIAL HISTORY
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Colonial & natural historyallow ~1 hour
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Entry fee applieslast admission 17:00
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History-curious visitorssteady all week
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The Richard Kandt biography exhibitfounding-of-Kigali context

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Olivier K.4.2★ on Google

Small but genuinely informative — good context on how Kigali itself came to exist, not just Rwanda broadly.

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