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Museum restorer recounts discovering King Leopold II's colonial brutality
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A woman who began working at age 23 as a restorer for the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, near Brussels, says her background research into the museum's collections led her to uncover the atrocities committed under Belgium's King Leopold II in the Congo. Her account is being widely shared and reposted, drawing renewed attention to Belgium's colonial legacy and how its museums present that history.
Why now: Her firsthand account is resonating amid ongoing debate about Belgium's colonial past and the reputational reckoning of King Leopold II.
Royal Museum for Central AfricaKing Leopold IIBelgiumTervurenBrussels
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