Kigali Memorial Center
Kigali Genocide Memorial Center:
The Kigali Memorial Center (KMC) is quite possibly one of the most tasteful and well-implemented memorial of its kind, including those in Europe and North America. The Kigali Memorial Centre is an international centre. It deals with a topic of international import, with far-reaching significance, and is designed to engage and challenge an international visitor base.
The Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre was opened on the 10th Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, in April 2004. The Centre in Kigali was created by a joint partnership of the Kigali City Council and the UK-based Aegis Trust. The creation of the Kigali Memorial Centre was funded by a number of donors worldwide.
This site has been constructed in memory of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide that took almost 1,000,000 lives in 100 days while the world stood by and watched. The Kigali Memorial Centre is a site of burial for around 250,000 victims of the genocide. The Memorial Center is housed in its own new building in Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali approximately 2 hours north of our main museum in Butare.
The Centre features three permanent exhibitions, the largest of which documents the genocide in 1994. There is also a children’s memorial, and an exhibition on the history of genocidal violence around the world. The Education Centre, Memorial Gardens containing ten graves and National Documentation Centre of the Genocide all contribute to a meaningful tribute to those who perished, and form a powerful educational tool for the next generation.
Main Building:
Inside the main building, the exhibits include an overview of the Rwandan genocide, with particular emphasis placed on the colonial context, those Rwandans who managed to save people, and the long-term effects of the genocide. Certain aspects of this history are highlighted using multimedia displays and short documentaries. In the upstairs of the exhibit, there is a touching photograph exhibit dedicated to the children who were killed during the genocide, as well as a comparative exhibit aimed at demonstrating similarities between the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and the genocides in Turkish Armenia, Nazi-occupied Europe, Cambodia, and Bosnia, among others.
Mass Graves:
Outside the main building are an endless number of mass graves, where victims are transported and buried according to Rwandan tradition following the discovery of mass graves remaining from the 1994 genocide.
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