The weight of the history here — the plane wreckage still in the garden — sits alongside genuinely strong contemporary art. Heavy but worth it.
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This was Juvénal Habyarimana's residence until his plane was shot down in April 1994, an event that triggered the genocide — the wreckage is still visible in the garden. Renamed the Rwanda Art Museum in 2018, it now holds the country's largest collection of post-genocide contemporary artworks by Rwandan and international artists.
The weight of the history here — the plane wreckage still in the garden — sits alongside genuinely strong contemporary art. Heavy but worth it.
The preserved 1907 residence of Dr. Richard Kandt, Kigali's first German colonial resident — pre-colonial life, colonial history, natural exhibits.
GISOZIThe definitive historical site honoring the victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi — free entry, gardens, mass graves, deeply moving.