The Museum is built in the Parliamentary building which was once known as Conceil National de Developement (CND) because the building hosted the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) politicians and the 600 man protection force (3BN) from 28th December 1993 as they were in the preparations for the installation of Broad Based Transitional Government and the National Transitional Assembly.
These 600 man protection force were the ones given the order first on April 7th 1994 by the Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) Chairman of High Command, Major General Paul Kagame, now the President of the Republic to break out from their initial positions defend themselves and rescue victims of genocide in their vicinity when campaign against genocide began.
The Museum depicts in details how the Campaign Against Genocide Plan was executed by RPA following the withdrawal of UN troops leaving the targeted Tutsi under the mercy of the genocidaires and how RPA forces who were in the war of liberation took the unilateral decision to stop Genocide, rescue vistims of genocide and defeat the genocidal forces.
The museum has its outer part comprised of monuments including that of the 12.7mm Machine Gun that helped in containing the advancing genocidal forces.
The Internal part of the museum has nine main galleries or rooms, the most important one being the gallery showing Maj. Gen. Paul Kagame in his capacity of Chairman RPA High Command giving the order to stop the genocide.
Other galleries show exhibition about peace process, Genocide Preparation and Genocide execution, defeat of Genocidal forces and Rescue Victims of Genocide, enemy defeat and humanity in the face of genocide, among others.
The external part is composed with monuments where the main monument faces the entrance of the parliamentary buildings and narrates the story of rescue missions carried out by the RPA.
The second monument bears a soldier holding a 12.7mm Machine Gun that helped in containing the advancing genocidal forces. The third monument is in honour of the soldiers who perished during the rescue operations.
The monument placed on top of the Parliamentary buildings is a statue of two soldiers operating a heavy machine gun that helped RPA defeat forces that were based at Camp of Presidential Guards (Camp GP)
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