National Museum of Gitega

National Museum of Gitega

The exterior of the museum, pictured in 2013
Established	1955 (1955)
Location	Place de la Révolution 223 Gitega, Gitega Province, Burundi
Coordinates	3°25′06″S 29°54′31″E / 3.418236°S 29.908485°E / -3.418236; 29.908485
Type	national museum

The National Museum of Gitega (French: Musée National de Gitega, Kirundi: Iratiro ry'akaranga k'Uburundi) is the national museum of Burundi. It is located in Gitega and was founded under Belgian colonial rule in 1955.^[1] The museum is the largest of Burundi's public museums although its collection is displayed in a single room.^[2] In 2014 it averaged 20–50 visitors per week.^[3]

Founded in 1955, the museum was intended to preserve artefacts from Burundian folk culture which were declining as a result of modernisation and social change. Its collection includes ethnographic and historical objects originating in the country, including artefacts from the court of the Burundian monarchs.^[3] The lack of funds has meant that the museum has made few recent acquisitions.^[3]

In 2015, a catalogue of the museum's collection was published with the support of the German Embassy in Burundi entitled Le Patrimoine Burundais: le Musée de Gitega.^[4]