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In the coming months, KU Leuven will be exhibiting the work of art Ange de lumière in its University Hall . The work of the Congolese artist Yves Sambu can be viewed in the Jubilee Room, shedding new light on the African heritage objects that are dis ....
The Belgian government sold a valuable and stolen Nigerian work of art to a Flemish antique dealer for €240, according to an investigation by VRT NWS and De Tijd. Meanwhile, the Nigerian government is demanding that the piece be returned. ....
The Royal Museum of Central Africa at Tervuren has the largest collection of objects acquired in a colonial context An independent panel of scholars and experts has called on Belgian museums to restitute artefacts acquired in a colonial context and urged the government to create a neutral commission to evaluate restitution requests, an independent institute for provenance research, and a new law to facilitate returns. Their proposals are similar to guidelines put forward in Germany and the Netherlands. But there is one big difference in those countries, the guidelines were commissioned and adopted by the authorities. In Belgium, no official proposals on decolonising museums and restituting objects looted in the colonial era have so far been presented. ....