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The Rwanda Art Museum is the country’s only institution dedicated to contemporary art. Formerly the Presidential Palace Museum, this new museum displays contemporary artworks from Rwanda as well as abroad. The museum seeks to provide an insight into the originality of Rwandan creativity. Exploring the development of art from olden times to the modern-day, it considers how traditional and modern imaginations can blend and fuse. The museum director, Vivaldi Ngenzi, and curatorial staff are committed to program partners for the Green Architecture Project.

According to aesthetic and practical architectural standards of urban society, traditional housing structures of Native American nations, in the southwestern region of the United States of America, utilize similar construction techniques of the Rwandese when analyzing wigwam nomadic housing structures from the Pueblos alongside the East African daub housing structures.