Africa Museum – Peter Geoghegan

The World’s Last Colonial Museum

By peterPosted on 3rd October 2012Posted in London Review of Books, UncategorizedTagged Africa Museum, Brussels, Colonial, Roger Casement

The Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels has been called ‘the last colonial museum in the world’. It’s not hard to see why: in the marble lobby a statue celebrates ‘Belgium bringing civilisation to the Congo’; the Memorial Room lists the names of the 1508 Belgians who died in Africa between 1876 and 1908 but doesn’t mention […]