Belgium’s Africa Museum mired in controversy despite renovation
By Reuters
11 December 2018 |
5:20 am
Belgium's Africa Museum will reopen to the public on Sunday (December 9) after five years of renovations designed to modernise the museum from an exhibition of pro-colonial propaganda to one that is critical of Belgium's imperialist past.
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