What Remains? ... : Decolonization and Erasure of Memory in the History of the AfricaMuseum, 1897-2020 ...

The Museé Royale de l’Afrique Centrale in Tervuren, Belgium purports to have the richest collection of African cultural artifacts in the world. Constructed at the height of the Belgian King Leopold II’s reign of terror in Congo, the museum stands as both a testament to and memorial of Belgian state and monarchical colonial legacies. The museum, relatively unchanged since its reimaging at the turn of the 20th century, closed its doors in 2013 to undergo a five-year decolonizing renovation designed to repair the museum’s relationship with Belgian memory and international morality. The deconstruc... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Canion Brewer, Kyley Elise
Dokumenttyp: Text
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Verlag/Hrsg.: Washington State University
Schlagwörter: AfricaMuseum / Colonialism / Leopold II / Royal Museum of Central Africa / Tervuren / Belgium / European History
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28937655
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.7273/000004461

The Museé Royale de l’Afrique Centrale in Tervuren, Belgium purports to have the richest collection of African cultural artifacts in the world. Constructed at the height of the Belgian King Leopold II’s reign of terror in Congo, the museum stands as both a testament to and memorial of Belgian state and monarchical colonial legacies. The museum, relatively unchanged since its reimaging at the turn of the 20th century, closed its doors in 2013 to undergo a five-year decolonizing renovation designed to repair the museum’s relationship with Belgian memory and international morality. The deconstruction of colonial ideologies across European institutions is an increasingly important movement across multiple fields of study. Incorporating elements of Museum Studies, Indigenous Studies and Methodologies, Memory Studies and History, this project engages and critiques the troubling myth of decolonizing a fundamentally colonial space by placing in context the newly renamed AfricaMuseum’s renovation policies, ...