Three strands
The heritage sites divide into three. Pre-colonial and colonial: the Ethnographic Museum at Huye, the King's Palace at Nyanza with its royal cattle, and the Kandt House in Kigali, the building the capital grew from.
1994 and its memorials: the Kigali Genocide Memorial first, then the preserved sites at Nyamata and Ntarama and Murambi, and the Presidential Palace at Kanombe. The memorials guide covers which is which and how to visit responsibly.
Living tradition: Intore dance and the drum orchestras, and imigongo painting in the east. The craft cooperatives that keep both alive sit under Communities.
The Nyanza cluster. Six of these sites sit within a few kilometres of each other in the old royal capital — the King's Palace, the Kwigira Museum, the Mwima Mausoleum, Christ-Roi Church, the Old King's Court and the Rwanda African Art Museum, with the Isonga Cultural Troupe performing at the palace. Treat them as one destination: see Nyanza.
One rule applies across the memorial sites: one per day, and nothing scheduled after it.