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Belgium's Africa Museum Pores Over Colonial-era Collection
Barron's
Belgium's main museum dedicated to Africa has started delving into the origins of its enormous collection, as a first step towards possible...
3 months ago
Belgium's AfricaMuseum has a dark colonial past – it's making slow progress in confronting this history
The Conversation
Racist displays and stories remain on display in several western European museums. They include grotesque objects depicting African people...
10 months ago
Why Belgian museums need to confront their looted African trophies
The Brussels Times
In recent years, pressure has been growing on European museums to return artifacts taken from Africa during colonial times. When the Royal...
2 weeks ago
The Royal Museum for Central Africa’s Fraught Update
The Atlantic
Textbooks can be revised, but historic sites, monuments, and collections that memorialize ugly pasts aren't so easily changed.
50 months ago
Belgium confronts ugly colonial past, but African museum changes don't please everyone
Los Angeles Times
The Royal Museum for Central Africa opened here in 1897 to celebrate Belgium's new colonial triumph — the creation of the Congo Free State...
54 months ago
A Lasting Legacy Of The Builder King In Brussels
Culture Trip
Unbeknownst to some many of Brussels' architectural masterworks share a dark past with Leopold II's conquest of the Congo.
8 months ago
Belgium's Africa Museum rethinks its relationship with Congo
BBC
The 125-year-old institution is teaching a new generation of Belgians a different history.
10 months ago
The double anniversary of Belgium's Africa Museum
Travel Tomorrow
The Royal Museum of Central Africa, renamed the Africa Museum, has been standing in Tervuren for over a century. 125 years to be precise.
7 months ago
Nothing to see at Belgium's Royal Museum of Central Africa
The Outline
It's in four languages on the wall above a pirogue, a humongous black canoe, hand-hewn from the 100-foot trunk of a Sepo tree. Farther down,...
59 months ago
Belgium's Africa Museum reopens, as country confronts its violent colonial past
Washington Post
BRUSSELS — The years-long renovation of Belgium's grand museum devoted to Central Africa was intended to overhaul an institution that was...
61 months ago