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 1980’s.

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.

Rwanda’s Stone Age hidden 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 the 20th of April 1994 during the Genocide.

The Ethnographic Museum contains seven galleries which 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.

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