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Royal Museum for Central Africa

The Royal Museum for Central Africa must aspire to be a world centre of research and knowledge dissemination on past and present societies and natural environments of Africa, and in particular Central Africa, to foster – among the public at large and the scientific community – understanding of and interest in this area and, through partnerships, to contribute substantially to its sustainable development. Thus the core endeavours of this Africa-oriented institution consist of acquiring and managing collections, conducting scientific research, implementing the results of this research, disseminating knowledge, and mounting selected exhibitions of its collections.

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Index cards from the bird collection of the AfricaMuseum (12)

The first bird specimens in our ornithology collection date from 1897, but only from the 1910s-1920s, when the Belgian zoologist Henri Schouteden sta…

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Registry of the Bird collection of the AfricaMuseum (25)

Our bird collection, almost entirely obtained in Africa, contains more than 150,000 bird specimens, including flat-skins, specimens preserved in alco…

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Type material from the Lepidoptera collection (the butterflies, the skippers and the macromoths)

The Royal Museum for Central Africa exists as a scientific institution since 1898 and already during this period insects from sub-Saharan Africa were…

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Registry of the Bird collection of the AfricaMuseum (04)

Our bird collection, almost entirely obtained in Africa, contains more than 150,000 bird specimens, including flat-skins, specimens preserved in alco…

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