Royal Museum of Central Africa

The Royal Museum of Central Africa is located in the small town of Tervuren, which is adjacent to Brussels from the west side. And despite the fact that the total number of local residents barely reaches 20,000 people, the museum itself is a major attraction that has always been under the special attention of royalty.

The museum itself changed its name several times, initially it was called the Museum of the Belgian Congo (in 1910), then the prefix “Royal” was added (in 1952), and in 1960 it received its final name “Royal Museum of Central Africa”. This change was in order to fully reflect the very essence of the Museum. After all, there are all the flora and fauna of Africa, numbering 10,000,000 animals, 180,000 ethnographic objects, 56.000 wooden samples, as well as the most fully reflective of the lives of African residents with the help of 350 archives and even musical instruments, the total number of which has already exceeded 8000.

The inhabitants of the Congo, whose way of life here is widely represented, are shocked by their objects of ordinary everyday life, only masks and human dried heads (Tsantsa) that are worth it! Not to mention the hundreds of stuffed animals that became trophies of hunting at the time.

The museum is also known as the Museum of Money, which has its own two coins with its own image, issued in 2010. Coins in denominations of 10 and 50 euros are minted from 925 silver.