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Museum restorer's account revives Leopold II atrocities debate
Original: RE: https:// hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/1173 98176880105009 When I was 23 years old I started to work as a restorer for t
A woman who began working as a restorer at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, near Brussels, at age 23 says background research for the job led her to discover the brutality of Belgium's King Leopold II's colonial rule in the Congo. Her reflections are being widely shared and commented on, drawing renewed attention to Belgium's colonial past and how its institutions present it.
Why now: The personal account touches on Belgium's ongoing reckoning with its colonial legacy in the Congo under King Leopold II.
Royal Museum for Central AfricaKing Leopold IIBelgiumTervurenCongo
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