INTAGARA Handcrafts

Huye Opened Opening date unknown

Baskets, imigongo panels, and pottery, a short walk from Huye's museum.

INTAGARA sits a short walk from the Ethnographic Museum in Huye and sells the same categories of craft the museum keeps behind glass: woven baskets, imigongo panels made from cow dung and ash, wood carving, pottery. Visitors often call the imigongo work unusually well made for a shop this size.

It doubles as a small coffee stop, according to its own Instagram bio. That combination is common in Huye, where museum visitors want somewhere to sit before the drive back to Kigali or on to Nyungwe.

Good to know

• Ask which pieces are imigongo, the black-and-white geometric panels are the craft Huye is known for.

Near Ethnographic Museum, Huye © OpenStreetMap

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