The Congo river, in Belgium too !

While the exhibition « Fleuve Congo » is enjoying a raging success at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, our Belgian friends (and their visitors !) will be thrilled to hear that a sister exhibition has popped up at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren (near Brussels) from 27 April 2010 to 9 January 2011.

The scientific mission upon which the exhibition is based tracks the richness of the riverbed, measured by researchers over a distance of 1750 km, between Kinsangani and Kinshasa.

Here too, the point of view is multidisciplinary, and touches simultaneously upon questions of ecology and biodiversity, as well as linguistics and archeology.

Visitors can discover the languages spoken on the banks of the gigantic Congo river, a true « artery of Central Africa ». Numerous interviews and audiovisual installations punctuate the exhibition’s journey, which is made up of nine stages.

Rendez-vous at the Tervuren Museum, which is celebrating a double birthday : its own centennial, and Congo’s 50 years of independence !

Royal Museum for Central Africa (MRAC)
Leuvensesteenweg 13
3080 Tervuren – Belgium
Tel. (+32) 02 769 52 11
Fax (+32) 02 769 56 38

Exhibition webpage:

http://www.africamuseum.be/museum/visiting/temporaryexpo/congoriver2010

Or http://www.congo2010.be