Rwesero Art Museum is a

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

Nyanza, Rwanda Nyanza, also known as Nyabisindu, is a town located in Nyanza District in the Southern Province of Rwanda. Nyanza is the capital of the Southern Province. History Nyanza was the capital of the Kingdom of Rwanda from 1958 to 1962. In 1994, d ...

. It is under the responsibility of the

Institute of National Museums of Rwanda The Institute of National Museums of Rwanda (INMRB) is a governmental organization in Rwanda. It was started as an ethnographic museum in September 1989, consisting only of the National Museum of Rwanda in Butare, but it now contains the: * Ethn ...

. It was built as a palace for King

Mutara III Mutara III Rudahigwa (March 1911 – 25 July 1959) was King ('' umwami'') of Rwanda between 1931 and 1959. He was the first Rwandan king to be baptised, and Roman Catholicism took hold in Rwanda during his reign. His Christian names were Cha ...

Rudahigwa, but he never had time to move into it; he died before occupying it, and was turned into an art museum.Institute of National Museums of Rwanda
, Retrieved on July 1, 2008

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