BRUSSELS — Belgium’s Africa Museum, once seen as Europe’s last unreconstructed museum of the colonial era, reopened Saturday after a five-year, $73 million revamp. The museum in Tervuren, on the ...
Racist displays and stories remain on display in several western European museums. They include grotesque objects depicting African people as “savage” and “wild”. Narratives of a “continent without ...
TERVUREN, Belgium – For decades, Belgian schoolchildren had come to the Africa Museum near Brussels to marvel at the stuffed animals, drums, ritual masks and minerals that glowed in the darkness of ...
DR Congo’s Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde (L) and Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (2L) look at displays during the presentation of the inventory of museum pieces at the ...
When you think about culinary tourism, you probably picture eating your weight in pasta in Italy or sampling the best of Bangkok's street food. But there are also more niche tourist attractions for ...
For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A journalist visits Belgium's Africa Museum before its reopening to the public on December ...
(JTA) — When Belgium’s national Holocaust museum opened in 2012, it was seen as significant progress. In a country that has a record of local police helping the Nazis murder a quarter of the kingdom’s ...
A journalist visits Belgium's Africa Museum before its reopening to the public on December 9, 2018 in Tervuren, Belgium. [Photo: Reuters] TERVUREN, Belgium - Belgium’s Africa Museum will reopen to the ...
TERVUREN, Belgium (Reuters) - Belgium's Africa Museum will reopen to the public on Sunday after five years of renovations designed to modernize the museum from an exhibition of pro-colonial propaganda ...