Kigali houses several memorials, museums, and centers dedicated to the Rwandan Genocide, including the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre.

The city now has international class hotels, some played a role in history :

- The Milles Collines in the Kiyovu area. This hotel became a refugee centre during the genocide, as famously depicted in the film Gotel Rwanada (although the hotel shown in the film is in fact in South Africa).

It is also the setting for the famous novel Un Dimanche à la pisciine à Kigali, by Quebecer Gil Courtemanche, and its movie adaptation Un Dimanche à Kigali.

- The Kigali Serena Hotel, formerly known as the InterContinental Kigali. Formerly a Belgian-owned hotel known as the Diplomates, the hotel was briefly portrayed in the second half of Hotel Rwanda.

It was later bought by the InterContinental Hotels group and remodeled in 2003.