Kandt House Museum of Natural History is a museum in Kigali, Rwanda. It is under the responsibility of the Institute of National Museums of Rwanda.
Dedicated to Richard Kandt de:Richard Kandt, in his former home on the Nyarugenge Hill in Kigali, the museum strives to represent the evolution of the ground, animals and plants, and to explain the interdependency between living beings and their environment.
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