The Musée de la vie indigène in Leopoldville
| Autor: | Raymaekers, Jan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.3379975 |
| Popis: | The “Travel Guide to Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi” for 1958 begins the tour of Leopoldville in the Musée de la vie indigène. It was then one of the main attractions of the colony’s capital. With the independence of 1960 the institution was handed over to the Congolese government. In a matter of a few years the staff sold out the museum to collectors and dealers, thus causing its permanent closure. The present paper brings back the reader to the heyday of the museum which opened its doors in 1936. We become acquainted with the initiators and their ambitions, and situate their enterprise within the colonial cultural policy of the time. Then we focus on the building of the collection and have a walk among the masterpieces of this lost museum. Paper presented at the meeting of the Section of Human Sciences held on 21 March 2017. Text received on 13 June 2017 and submitted to peer review. Final version approved by the reviewers received on 30 May 2018. |
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