WRAL

Belgium’s Africa Museum Had a Racist Image. Can It Change That?

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 ...
Reuters

Belgium's Africa Museum reopens to confront its colonial demons

TERVUREN, Belgium (Reuters) - Belgium's Africa Museum will reopen to the public on Sunday after five years of renovations designed to modernise the museum from an exhibition of pro-colonial propaganda ...
The Durango Herald

Revamped museum takes honest look at Belgium’s colonial past

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 ...
CNN

Belgian colonial museum re-opens amid protests and demands for return of artifacts

Belgium’s controversial Africa Museum re-opened on Saturday after a five-year renovation, but protests and a request from the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for the return of its ...
Hyperallergic

As Belgium Reopens Africa Museum, DR Congo Demands Restitution of Artifacts

The Africa Museum, formerly named the Royal Museum for Central Africa, in Tervuren, Belgium (photo by Rolf Müller via Wikimedia Commons) Even before France’s landmark restitution report roiled the ...
Artnet

A New Museum Dedicated to Belgian Beer Has Opened in the Former Brussels Stock Exchange Building, Complete With a Virtual Bartender

Belgian Beer World, a new museum dedicated to the history and love of beermaking in Belgium, has opened in the neoclassical building that once housed the Brussels Stock Exchange. Photo courtesy of ...
Yahoo

The Belgium Museum That's Dedicated To A Beloved Fruit

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 ...