Kandt House Museum in Kigali is named after Richard Kandt, the first colonial governor of Rwanda on behalf of Germany until the early 1900s. At present, the Kandt House Museum comprises three main parts. The first part presents Rwandan life in all its aspects - social, economic, and political - before the colonial period. The second part traces the experience of the Rwandan people during the colonial period. Following the Berlin Conference in 1884, the Germans ruled Rwanda until 1916, when the Belgians took over under the League of Nations Mandate after World War I. Richard Kandt’s life and deeds in Rwanda are covered here. Kigali was made the capital city of Rwanda upon independence in 1962, and the third part covers the history of Kigali before, during, and after the colonial era.