Royal Museum for Central Africa

The Royal Museum for Central Africa (Dutch Koninklijk Museum voor Midden -Afrika, French Musée royal de l' Afrique centrale), shortly Africa Museum, in the Belgian Tervuren near Brussels is at the same museum and research facility.

The main exhibition shown since 1957 the immediately situated in the north of the park of Tervuren museum focuses mostly on the Belgian Congo, the former Belgian colony. There also the entire Congo Basin, Central, Eastern, Central and West Africa are considered.

The building was built for the Universal Exhibition in 1897, where King Leopold II presented his Congo Free State.

After the independence of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1960, it shifted the focus of his work on ethnography and anthropology.

On 30 April 2010, the museum celebrated its 100th birthday consuming. It has been closed since December 1, 2013 and is scheduled for mid 2017 to reopen with a new concept. For it is submitted by Adam Hochschild representation of the personal commitment of Leopold II in the Congo as well as by Ludo de Witte 1999 documented Belgian involvement in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba and the discussions bill thus triggered to carry; they represent the existing museum overlooking the Belgian colonial history in question and press for a new presentation of the rich museum collections.