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1. Kigali Genocide Memorial
The national memorial at Gisozi where more than 250,000 victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi are buried, with permanent exhibitions and memorial gardens.
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2. Campaign Against Genocide Museum
A museum in Rwanda's parliament building telling how RPA forces stationed there in 1994 fought to stop the genocide, with outdoor bunkers and monuments.
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3. Kandt House Museum
Kigali's oldest surviving building, the 1908 house of German administrator Richard Kandt, now a museum on pre-colonial Rwanda, the colonial era and the city's origins.
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4. Rwanda Art Museum
Contemporary Rwandan and international art shown in the former presidential palace at Kanombe, where wreckage of the 1994 presidential jet lies in the grounds.
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5. Kigali Convention Centre
The domed convention centre at the KG 2 roundabout, opened in 2016, whose shape recalls a traditional royal palace and which lights up the skyline at night.
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6. Nyandungu Urban Wetland Eco-Tourism Park
A restored 121-hectare wetland and forest park opened in 2022, with 10km of paths, ponds, a medicinal garden and more than 100 bird species.
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7. Inema Arts Center
A two-storey contemporary art gallery and creative hub in Kacyiru, founded in 2012 by artist brothers, with exhibitions, workshops, classes and a café.
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8. Niyo Arts Center
A gallery and artists' collective opened in 2014 for East African makers, with studios, murals and a social mission supporting vulnerable groups in Kigali.
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