Culture
06:33 14/07/2021
For several years now, the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History (MRA), its curators and the Tervuren-Montgomery committee of local residents which supports it have been battling to protect the museum's collections against — what they call — a siphoning of the Brussels museum’s heritage towards Flanders and Wallonia. They fear that the resources and attractions of the Royal Army Museum are being reduced in favour of regional museums.
These fears have increased recently after a strategic plan to distribute the MRA’s exhibits among smaller institutions was tabled by defence minister Ludivine Dedonder, who oversees the War Heritage Institute (WHI), the federal body that brings together all of Belgium’s military museums.