Too often presented from the vantage point of a political tool only, there is in fact a complex history behind the memory of the Tutsi genocide. This paper revisits the history of memories of the genocide through its memorial spaces, using Rwandan archival records and interviews. Rwanda’s memorials rise in a landscape hybridized by deliberately mixed memories. The authors attempt to reconstitute the archeology of Rwanda’s memorials, and show how difficult it is to articulate both personal and collective grief in a country where national reconciliation policy tends to conceal the violence of the past.