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Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale


  • URI(s)

  • Instance Of

  • Scheme Membership(s)

  • Collection Membership(s)

  • Variants

    • Africa Tervuren
    • Königliches Museum für Zentralafrika
    • Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika
    • Musée de Tervuren
    • Tervuren, Belgium. Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale
    • Royal Museum for Central Africa
    • Royal Museum of Central Africa
    • MRAC
    • KMMA
    • RMCA
    • Africa Museum

  • Additional Information

    • Descriptor

        Anthropological museums and collections

    • Descriptor

        Natural history museums

    • Associated Locale

        Belgium

    • Associated Locale

        Tervuren (Belgium)

    • Field of Activity

        (lcsh) Natural history--Congo (Democratic Republic)

    • Use For

      • nr91044265

    • Additional Related Forms

    • Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

    • Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

    • Earlier Established Forms

      • Tervuren, Belgium. Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale

    • Sources

      • found: Annales. Série in 8o, Sciences géologiques, no 38 (1961):t.p. (Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale; Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika)
      • found: Kaiapó, c1992:t.p. (Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren))
      • found: Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale. Département de géologie et de minéralogie. Rapport annuel, 1999 & 2000:t.p. (Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika) verso t.p. (Royal Museum of Central Africa)
      • found: République démocratique du Congo: biographies des acteurs de la transition ... 2006:t.p. (Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale) verso (MRAC)
      • found: Als muren spreken, c2010:p.4 (Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika; KMMA)
      • found: Wikipedia, French version, Sep. 24, 2015(Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale; situated in Tervueren, a few kilometers from Brussels, in Brabant flamant; its origin was in the colonial section of the 1897 Exposition universelle, Brussels; under Leopold II the current museum, linked closely to the history of colonization of Congo by Belgium, was erected between 1905 and 1908; the musée du Congo was intended to interest Belgians in what was then known as the "État indépendant du Congo" (1884-1908); it became the musée du Congo belge after 1908, then the musée royal de l'Afrique centrale (MRAC) in 1960; it closed in late 2013 for renovations, to reopen in 2017; Dutch, Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika; English, Royal Museum for Central Africa; German, Königliches Museum für Zentralafrika)
      • found: OCLC #756260654, Sep. 24, 2015(Musée de Tervuren; Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale)
      • found: Giant masks from the Congo, 2015:title page (Royal Museum for Central Africa) page 4 of cover (RMCA)
      • found: Précarité et bien-être à Goma (RDC), 2016:title page (Africa [repeated upside-down] Tervuren (as logo), Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika, Musée royal de l'Afrique Centrale)
      • found: Mai-Ndombe, 2019:title page (Africa Museum [logo]) page facing title page (Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale; MRAC)
      • notfound: Annales du Musée royal du Congo belge, Tervuren, Belgique. Série in 8o, Sciences géologiques, v. 37 (1960)

    • Change Notes

      • 1980-10-01: new
      • 2021-12-20: revised

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