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Belgian colonial treasures:
The Africamusuem
Pictura was recently given a new, large, European call for tenders: a digitizing and input project for the Royal Museum for Central Africa.
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| Source: The Royal Museum for Central-Africa |
The Royal Museum for Central Africa is located in the Colonial Palace, less than thirty minutes from the centre of Brussels. The palace was built for the World Fair of 1897 by King Leopold II as a showcase for Congo and was expanded a year later and renamed to Congo Museum. In 1910 the museum, like the colony, was renamed once more, to Museum of Belgian Congo. In 1960, after Belgian Congo's independence, the museum was named Royal Museum for Central Africa. From then on, the collections covered a much broader area than just Congo.
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| The Royal Museum for Central Africa |
The collection
The museum has one of the richest collections of ethnographical objects from Central Africa and is a leading institute for scientific research about Africa. The museum wants to renew and modernize itself by making its collections more accessible through digitization. The collection that Pictura digitized and placed in a database for the museum consists of around 190,000 photographs and index cards from, among others, the Museum of Belgian Congo.
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