Brussels - Sunday morning

Posted by Dawn at 10/7/2007 11:06 AM and is filed under Brussels
The Fellows went to the Museum of Central Africa this morning - http://www.africamuseum.be/.  Belgium colonized the Congo in 1877, when King Leopold II commissioned journalist Henry Morton Stanley to explore the Congo, secure treaties with local chiefs, and establish the contacts needed to form a commercial monopoly of the land. Leopold named this area the Congo Free State.

Here is a photo of an elephant display at the front of the museum.



Here's a couple of photos from inside the museum.


 

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