The Africa Museum of Tervuren, Belgium: The Reopening of “The Last Colonial Museum in the World”, Issues on Decolonization and Repatriation

The Africa Museum in Tervuren, Brussels, reopened its doors after a closure of five years. What precisely is on view in the refurbished museum? And how do the choices made by the museum relate to wider discussions in anthropology and museology on decolonization and repatriation? In Belgium, it seems...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hugo DeBlock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Leicester 2019-07-01
Series:Museum & Society
Subjects:
art
Online Access:https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/3066