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Reviews of Kandt House Museum

• Fahd Batayneh فهد بطاينة

  5

  Reviewed: 2024-06-14

  This is a small yet lovely museum that briefs visitors on colonial Africa and which countries were colonialized by whom. One can buy tickets at the entrance, and there is ample parking. The ticket office also sells souvenirs. There is a nice garden outside. Once inside, the place is well organized and easy to navigate. You get a guide as part of the visit. Once done with the museum, there is a section outdoor for reptiles. Worth spending 30-60 minutes here.

• Valucee Luchi

  5

  Reviewed: 2024-04-21

  The guide was very knowledgeable and willingly took our pix. The snakes are beautiful and scary at the same time. The courtyard fills you with a sense of history.

• Rose Mute

  5

  Reviewed: 2024-03-28

  It was an interesting visit. Learn about Rwandan history before and during colonialism through the guide and photo charts in the museum. There is a snake and reptile holding at the back of the Kandt House which is an additional site to behold.

• Reza Sattarzadeh Nowbari

  3

  Reviewed: 2023-11-28

  It is OK to visit this former residence of German viceroy to Rwanda, Kandt, but you will not miss anything if you don't. There are a number of photos from Rwanda in the late 19th century auntie at the end of the colonial period. There are just a handful of items, but the lace can not be really called a museum. The 6000 RWF entrance fee also seems excessive. Also, there is a museum personnel who constantly watches you, which makes the experience rather uneasy. It is good to learn about the colonial period, but the management can do better in managing the place. There is also a part where they keep some snakes and crocodiles, which I did not visit. It did not seem to be a very good place to keep animals. Overall, it is not strongly recommended to visit this museum, buy if you have some extra time, it's just OK and average.

• Salma Muhammed

  5

  Reviewed: 2022-04-18

  We got a tour of how Kigali came to be, past colonial eras and the justice system in place before they were colonized. The tour guide was soft spoken, very detailed and patient also. I also got to see the reptiles they had at the museum. Totally recommend this place as one of the attraction sites to see if you are visiting Kigali for the first time.