Kigali Genocide Memorial Center

The Memorial Center is housed in its own new building inaugurated in 2004 in Rwanda's capital city of Kigali approximately 2 hours north of the Institute of National Museums of Rwanda located in Butare (I.N.M.R.). It is situated in the Gasabo district about 3 km from the Kigali City Center. The Kigali Genocide Memorial is the best known and most visited because of its easy accessibility. Tourists arriving at the Kigali International Airport will find the site an easy drive from the airport or from one of the many hotels located in and around Kigali.
The remains of more than 250,000 people have been gathered from different districts of Kigali and were buried in the cemetery of this memorial site. The operation of burring the victims’ corpses’ that have been found in ditches and toilets is still going on. Since 2000, Kigali City began the treatment of different objects which could serve as materiel proofs of the genocide (clothes, bones., and other objects like weapons that were used during the genocide).
 Kigali Genocide Memorial contains oral testimonies collected from different Kigali city quarters, human bones, and skulls that have been treated for conservation. Weapons used during the genocide like machetes; clubs, swords … are also preserved there. Kigali Genocide Memorial also contains things like rosaries, identity cards, shoes, clothes, and pipes, abandoned by victims.
Kigali Genocide Memorial Center was inaugurated during the tenth commemoration of the genocide victims. The site is divided into different units like: exposition rooms of genocide proofs, a documentation center and an education center for peace and reconciliation.