Ethnographic museum is the largest museum in Rwanda, known by most people as the Butare Museum. It was gifted to the government of Rwanda by Belgium’s King Bodouin in the late 1980s.click here for mountain gorilla trekking tours 

It’s about a 35-kilometer drive from Kigali City Center. This museum was turned into one of Africa’s finest ethnographic collections and a learning place for geopolitics, culture, and the history of Rwanda. Ethnographic museum entry fees costs $35 per individual foreign non residences.

Rwanda's hidden Stone Age history and traditions are found in this museum. It is also famous for the death of Queen Dowager Rosalie Gicanda, the wife of Rwandan King Mutara 111 of Rwanda, on April 20, 1994, during the Genocide.

The Ethnographic Museum contains seven galleries that display artistic, historical, ethnographic, and archaeological artifacts accompanied by visual aids that give tourists a remarkable insight into Rwandan culture. It also displays moving items used in hunting, pottery, woodwork, agriculture, weaving, and animal husbandry.

Ethnographic museum also helps to show the social importance of cattle, architecture, and the descendants of the Royal Herds. Click here here for mountain gorilla trekking safaris 

The last room at the museum reveals beliefs, culture, poetry, oral tradition, cosmology, and traditional customs.

The ethnographic museum is situated in about 135 km from Rwanda’s capital, a drive may take 3 hours to the Ethnographic museum which is en route to Kigali-Nyungwe forest national park

The ethnographic Museum is opened daily from 8am to 6pm, then it’s closed on the 7th April and Closed from 11 am to 6 pm on Umuganda days which is (the last Saturday of every month).