Totems and Taboos

Totems et Tabous

Also known as Tótems y tabúes: Museo Real de África Central, Totems et Tabous : Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, Totems & Tabus – Belgiens Kolonialmuseum, Totems and Taboos: Belgium's Colonial Museum, Tervuren: Muzeum Afryki Środkowej – Historia belgijskiej kolonizacji Kongo

“Recalling Belgium's brutal colonial history”

In Brussels, Belgium, the Royal Museum of Central Africa is undertaking a radical renovation, both physical and ethical, to show with sincerity, crudeness and open-mindedness the reality of the atrocities perpetrated against the inhabitants of the Belgian colonies in Africa, still haunted and traumatized by the ghost of King Leopold II of Belgium, a racist and genocidal tyrant.