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The Tervuren Museum and Belgium's Colonial Propaganda
Beyond the rubber atrocities and the uranium mine, Belgium's colonial project was also a vast propaganda machine. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, originally built as the colonial exhibition of 1897. They discuss how the museum's architecture, dioramas, and ethnographic displays were designed to legitimize Leopold II's rule over the Congo Free State, presenting it as a civilizing mission. They trace the museum's evolution from a propaganda tool to a contested site of memory, and its recent efforts to confront its…
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